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"Locking" Slide Master Items in PowerPoint 2007
In the GOOD powerpoint (I mean, 2003) when you put a footer or other item on a slide master, you could not then edit it from the individual slides. If I insert a picture on a slide master, when I go back to the slides I cannot accidentally move or delete it. However, I have a date, slide number, and footer, and I am constantly accidentally selecting it when I'm trying to select other text or objects on the slides. Is there any way to "lock" these items so they cannot be accidentally moved when not in slide master????? -- Hossdaddy |
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"Locking" Slide Master Items in PowerPoint 2007
"undisclosed" wrote in message ... In the GOOD powerpoint (I mean, 2003) when you put a footer or other item on a slide master, you could not then edit it from the individual slides. If I insert a picture on a slide master, when I go back to the slides I cannot accidentally move or delete it. However, I have a date, slide number, and footer, and I am constantly accidentally selecting it when I'm trying to select other text or objects on the slides. Is there any way to "lock" these items so they cannot be accidentally moved when not in slide master????? -- Hossdaddy If you are in fact putting items on the slide master and then going back to normal view, creating a slide using that master and then can move items or modify items on the individual slide that is coming from the master slide something is definitely wrong with your PowerPoint 2007 installation. I just spend 15 minutes trying to duplicate your issue but could not. Anything I placed on any of the multiple slide masters and then created blank slides using those masters showed the information on the created slides but I could not move or modify them. I suspect that you are not, in fact, using slide masters but creating what you think is a Master slide using the default slide that shows when first starting the program and duplicating the slide. To get to Master Slides you need to click View then on the left side of the ribbon, Slide Master. |
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"Locking" Slide Master Items in PowerPoint 2007
In article , LVTravel wrote:
"undisclosed" wrote in message ... In the GOOD powerpoint (I mean, 2003) when you put a footer or other item on a slide master, you could not then edit it from the individual slides. If I insert a picture on a slide master, when I go back to the slides I cannot accidentally move or delete it. However, I have a date, slide number, and footer, and I am constantly accidentally selecting it when I'm trying to select other text or objects on the slides. Is there any way to "lock" these items so they cannot be accidentally moved when not in slide master????? -- Hossdaddy If you are in fact putting items on the slide master and then going back to normal view, creating a slide using that master and then can move items or modify items on the individual slide that is coming from the master slide something is definitely wrong with your PowerPoint 2007 installation. Yep. It's called "Bad design". MS did naughty things to the poor puppy. I just spend 15 minutes trying to duplicate your issue but could not. Anything I placed on any of the multiple slide masters and then created blank slides using those masters showed the information on the created slides but I could not move or modify them. This problem only occurs with headers/footers. Other objects/shapes inserted on the masters work as you'd expect. Make sure headers and footers are enabled on the master then in normal view, INSERT tab, TEXT group, choose Header & Footer. Put check marks next to some of them then click Apply to All. Now you can click and select/edit/delete/move the headers/footers on your individual slides. I suspect that you are not, in fact, using slide masters but creating what you think is a Master slide using the default slide that shows when first starting the program and duplicating the slide. To get to Master Slides you need to click View then on the left side of the ribbon, Slide Master. |
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"Locking" Slide Master Items in PowerPoint 2007
Thank you both for responding... allow me to offer some clarification... In the GOOD powerpoint (I mean, 2003) when you put a footer or other item on a slide master, you could not then edit it from the individual slides. If I insert a picture on a slide master, when I go back to the slides I cannot accidentally move or delete it. However, I have a date, slide number, and footer, and I am constantly accidentally selecting it when I'm trying to select other text or objects on the slides. Is there any way to "lock" these items so they cannot be accidentally moved when not in slide master????? -- Hossdaddy If you are in fact putting items on the slide master and then going back to normal view, creating a slide using that master and then can move items or modify items on the individual slide that is coming from the master slide something is definitely wrong with your PowerPoint 2007 installation. Yep. It's called "Bad design". MS did naughty things to the poor puppy. Hossdaddy says... Yep. I am creating slides using a slide master and can then move/modify/delete items on the individual slides - very annoying - but as is clarified below, this only happens with footer items (footer, date/time, slide number). If I, for instance, paste a picture on the slide master then go to normal view, I cannot select, let alone move or edit the picture from the slide master. I have always been a huge fan of the slide master and one of the few people I know who actually uses it to simplify slide creation, which is why this "feature" is so annoying. I just spend 15 minutes trying to duplicate your issue but could not. Anything I placed on any of the multiple slide masters and then created blank slides using those masters showed the information on the created slides but I could not move or modify them. This problem only occurs with headers/footers. Other objects/shapes inserted on the masters work as you'd expect. Hossdaddy says... yes, this is true for me it's the footer elements. I should have clarified that in the original post. I want to basically make those footer elements a "background image"... AHA! Epiphany!! If I enter the footer on the Slide Master, then Cut and Paste the footer as a "Microsoft Office Graphic Object" I can still edit the text in the Slide Master, but when I go back to Normal view, I can no longer select it (i.e., it works like all other graphics). Not the optimal solution, but certainly a manageable workaround... Thanks for inspiring a workable solution! Make sure headers and footers are enabled on the master then in normal view, INSERT tab, TEXT group, choose Header & Footer. Put check marks next to some of them then click Apply to All. Now you can click and select/edit/delete/move the headers/footers on your individual slides. Hossdaddy says... unfortunately, the ability to select/edit/delete/move the headers/footers is the problem I was trying to solve, because I keep accidentally selecting them when working with other text boxes and graphics in normal view (but I think my epiphany above gives me a workable solution). Thanks! I suspect that you are not, in fact, using slide masters but creating what you think is a Master slide using the default slide that shows when first starting the program and duplicating the slide. To get to Master Slides you need to click View then on the left side of the ribbon, Slide Master. -- Hossdaddy |
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"Locking" Slide Master Items in PowerPoint 2007
"undisclosed" wrote in message ... Thank you both for responding... allow me to offer some clarification... In the GOOD powerpoint (I mean, 2003) when you put a footer or other item on a slide master, you could not then edit it from the individual slides. If I insert a picture on a slide master, when I go back to the slides I cannot accidentally move or delete it. However, I have a date, slide number, and footer, and I am constantly accidentally selecting it when I'm trying to select other text or objects on the slides. Is there any way to "lock" these items so they cannot be accidentally moved when not in slide master????? -- Hossdaddy If you are in fact putting items on the slide master and then going back to normal view, creating a slide using that master and then can move items or modify items on the individual slide that is coming from the master slide something is definitely wrong with your PowerPoint 2007 installation. Yep. It's called "Bad design". MS did naughty things to the poor puppy. Hossdaddy says... Yep. I am creating slides using a slide master and can then move/modify/delete items on the individual slides - very annoying - but as is clarified below, this only happens with footer items (footer, date/time, slide number). If I, for instance, paste a picture on the slide master then go to normal view, I cannot select, let alone move or edit the picture from the slide master. I have always been a huge fan of the slide master and one of the few people I know who actually uses it to simplify slide creation, which is why this "feature" is so annoying. I just spend 15 minutes trying to duplicate your issue but could not. Anything I placed on any of the multiple slide masters and then created blank slides using those masters showed the information on the created slides but I could not move or modify them. This problem only occurs with headers/footers. Other objects/shapes inserted on the masters work as you'd expect. Hossdaddy says... yes, this is true for me it's the footer elements. I should have clarified that in the original post. I want to basically make those footer elements a "background image"... AHA! Epiphany!! If I enter the footer on the Slide Master, then Cut and Paste the footer as a "Microsoft Office Graphic Object" I can still edit the text in the Slide Master, but when I go back to Normal view, I can no longer select it (i.e., it works like all other graphics). Not the optimal solution, but certainly a manageable workaround... Thanks for inspiring a workable solution! Make sure headers and footers are enabled on the master then in normal view, INSERT tab, TEXT group, choose Header & Footer. Put check marks next to some of them then click Apply to All. Now you can click and select/edit/delete/move the headers/footers on your individual slides. Hossdaddy says... unfortunately, the ability to select/edit/delete/move the headers/footers is the problem I was trying to solve, because I keep accidentally selecting them when working with other text boxes and graphics in normal view (but I think my epiphany above gives me a workable solution). Thanks! I suspect that you are not, in fact, using slide masters but creating what you think is a Master slide using the default slide that shows when first starting the program and duplicating the slide. To get to Master Slides you need to click View then on the left side of the ribbon, Slide Master. -- Hossdaddy How about putting the "moveable" items on the slide master after all the slides have been created! Seems like an easy workaround. |
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"Locking" Slide Master Items in PowerPoint 2007
Hossdaddy says... yes, this is true for me it's the footer elements. I should have clarified that in the original post. I want to basically make those footer elements a "background image"... AHA! Epiphany!! If I enter the footer on the Slide Master, then Cut and Paste the footer as a "Microsoft Office Graphic Object" I can still edit the text in the Slide Master, but when I go back to Normal view, I can no longer select it (i.e., it works like all other graphics). Not the optimal solution, but certainly a manageable workaround... Bingo. You could also simply add a text box to the master and put your footer text in that rather than using the supplied footer placeholder. And 2007 does give you some added flexibility here ... you can put the master items on the main master slide, in which case they'll appear on all the slide layouts and on any slides based on those layouts, OR you can put the items on just some of the slide layouts; in that case the items will appear only on slides based on those specific designs. Pretty neat, really. Thanks for inspiring a workable solution! My pleasure. |
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"Locking" Slide Master Items in PowerPoint 2007
How about putting the "moveable" items on the slide master after all the slides have been created! Seems like an easy workaround. When I was creating slides instead of code for clients, "after all the slides have been created" was often concurrent with "the time the meeting's scheduled to begin". Sometimes after ... IOW, in some situations, you never quite know when you're done editing and it's safe to let the footers out of their cage. It's a nuisance having to worry about accidentally selecting/moving footers. The tighter the deadline, the heavier the dread. ;-) The Epiphany Solution leaves one less thing to worry about. |
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