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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / June 2007Add-in available for default slides?
I'm tired of Powerpoint puttting two text boxes on my new slides! When I insert a new slide, I would like it to be completely blank. There is an add-in for Powerpoint on the PC that will allow you to set the default slides to be blank. I tried using this add-in on my Mac and I couldn't get it to work. Was hoping someone knew of an add-in for the Mac that will accomplish this goal? Thanks > I'm tired of Powerpoint puttting two text boxes on my new slides! When > I insert a new slide, I would like it to be completely blank. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Was hoping someone knew of an add-in for the Mac that will accomplish > this goal? No, but pressing Splat-A, Del should do ya. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > No, but pressing Splat-A, Del should do ya. So on a 50 slide presentation I have to do this 50 times. I guess inserting a blank slide was too much to ask. Microsoft bastages.... Hi Newt, There are several approaches to take care of this. One way... On the Formatting Palette in the Change Slides section click the Slide Layout button. Find the Change to Blank button and click on it to highlight it. When that is highlighted you can click the New Slide button on the standard toolbar. Each new slide will be blank. -Jim Quoting from "newteech@gmail.com" <newteech@gmail.com>, in article 1182894940.873990.9340@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com, on [DATE: >> No, but pressing Splat-A, Del should do ya. > > So on a 50 slide presentation I have to do this 50 times. > > I guess inserting a blank slide was too much to ask. Microsoft > bastages....  SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > On the Formatting Palette in the Change Slides section click the Slide > Layout button. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > When that is highlighted you can click the New Slide button on the standard > toolbar. Each new slide will be blank. Point to MacBU. Somewhere along the line, the Windows version forgot how to do this; no matter what the current slide is, it adds a Title & Bullets slide when you insert a new slide. I don't know what "bastages" are, but I suspect it's the plural of what I wanted to call the person who removed this handy feature. ;-) [wanders off for a moment, googles, has "aha" moment] Yup. That's the one. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Another way: Format a slide the way you like, then use Insert > Duplicate Slide. The Duplicate Slide control can be turned into a button and put onto any toolbar using View > Toolbars > Customize Menus and Toolbars. -Jim Quoting from "Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@localhost.com>, in article VA.0000359f.63c8e9cd@localhost.com, on [DATE: >> On the Formatting Palette in the Change Slides section click the Slide >> Layout button. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > Another way: > > Format a slide the way you like, then use Insert > Duplicate Slide. We're on a roll. Format one, go to Slide Sorter. OptionDrag it to the right. Now you've got two. Select both, OptionDrag, now we are four. Etc. Etc. Etc. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Hi Steve & Jim--- Thank you for your ideas in this thread. Unfortunately you guys haven't answered my orginial question. I want to change the default slide. When I shut down Powerpoint and fire it up again, I want the first slide to be blank. I'm dealing with young students so slide sorter plus option drag might be a bit too much to deal with. Is what I'm asking impossible? > Hi Steve & Jim--- > > Thank you for your ideas in this thread. > > Unfortunately you guys haven't answered my orginial question. You originally asked if we knew of an add-in. I replied that I did not, and nobody else piped up to tell me how wrong I was. > I want > to change the default slide. When I shut down Powerpoint and fire it [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Is what I'm asking impossible? Afraid so. To paraphrase Mick the J, You can't always get what you want. But if you try some workarounds, you get what you need. That's the best we got. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ OK Newt, Before I answer your question, I noticed during researching that at least two of the people who asked this question in the past wound up becoming Microsoft MVPs. I'm warning you here and now that if you continue to be helpful by posting answers to in the newsgroups over a period of years that there is a possibility that you (or anyone else who answers questions well) might wind up becoming an MVP. So here's what to do. Open a new, blank PowerPoint presentation. Format the slide to be blank (Format menu > Slide Layout > Blank) Use File > Save As Change the Format to Design Template Navigate to ...Microsoft Office 2004:Templates:Presentations:Designs Click on Blank Presentation (that will correctly name the file - don't change it at all) Click Save Click Replace That's it! Now when you open any new PowerPoint presentation the slide will be blank. When you click the New Slide button the new slide will also be blank. This works because the presentation called Blank Presentation is the one that PowerPoint uses whenever you open a new presentation. Now why didn't I think of that sooner? -Jim Quoting from "newteech@gmail.com" <newteech@gmail.com>, in article 1182996997.677725.90250@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com, on [DATE: > Hi Steve & Jim--- > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Is what I'm asking impossible? SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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