Table within a slide master?

Sorry if someone has covered this but I can't find anything on this topic. I'm working with Slide Masters and Layouts for the first time. I'm doing OK with making them and applying them to pages. But when I make a table it doesn't work. When I go to InsertLayout Placeholder Table, then I get a box that has the word "Table" in it. Is that right? When I look for controls to make it look like a table with headers, cells etc., right-click on it, whatever, I don't see any table controls, just the usual text/box attributes (size etc.). So in the ribbon I go to Table Styles and click on one of them (Light #5) and then I have a normal table floating above this box with "Table" in it that I can apply color etc to, but I can't edit it when going in the Normal page, the table's just static. Help! Again, trying to get a table format in slide masters that will edit when applied to the Normal view, similar to the way a text box provides the 5 levels of bullets.

Yeah, all the table placeholder does is give you an icon to insert a table.
It doesn't do anything for formatting, sorry.

Best thing I know to tell you to do is create a sample slide with a table on
it as an example and instruct your users to paste their data into it.
Microsoft hasn't given us any way to define real table styles, which is
essentially what you're asking for. Trust me, I've asked for this a
gazillion times. I hope someday it's added to the product.

You can also right-click a table in the Table Styles gallery on the table
tools tab and choose "set as default table." I know this doesn't help much
if your table is supposed to be very stylized, but it's the best I've got.

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"sudbird" wrote in message
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Sorry if someone has covered this but I can't find anything on this
topic. I'm working with Slide Masters and Layouts for the first time.
I'm doing OK with making them and applying them to pages. But when I
make a table it doesn't work. When I go to InsertLayout Placeholder
Table, then I get a box that has the word "Table" in it. Is that right?
When I look for controls to make it look like a table with headers,
cells etc., right-click on it, whatever, I don't see any table controls,
just the usual text/box attributes (size etc.). So in the ribbon I go to
Table Styles and click on one of them (Light #5) and then I have a
normal table floating above this box with "Table" in it that I can apply
color etc to, but I can't edit it when going in the Normal page, the
table's just static. Help! Again, trying to get a table format in slide
masters that will edit when applied to the Normal view, similar to the
way a text box provides the 5 levels of bullets.




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