The placeholders must be on the master slides and then they appear (or
should appear) on all the slide layouts (the small thumbnails) associated
with those masters. If they don't, then turn them on on the ribbon or paste
them onto the layout from the slide master.

Then in Normal editing View, go to Insert | Header and Footer. Type in the
info you want to have appear and click Apply to All.

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"Karene" wrote in message
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I'm using 2007 and trying to edit a ppt that was created in 2003. There is
a
text box at the bottom of each Title master slide (there are 5 different
versions) that is used for the presentation name, date and slide number.
I've
tried editing the Master title slide for each of the 5 groups but can't
get
the chages to apply to all of the slides - it will only apply to those
slides
that I've actually edited. Can someone help?