This is what I guess to be the “Master Master”. A set of proto-slides is shown in a panel on the left. The part I think I have right, is that what I take to be the Master Master slide is shown by choosing View -> Master -> Slide Master. Adding this is accomplished through the Insert menu’s “Slide Number” option. Due to this I probably just overlooked the easy solution in my haste. What MS calls this is the ‘Slide number’. Mainly the problem was me thinking of this as a ‘page’ number. The easiest one – I found out how to get a ‘page number’ on a slide. Thought I’d be a good citizen and share here for any Mac users in the meantime. I have fathomed answers to one of the problems I was having and ‘think’ I have an answer to another. Not fun and not the solution I was hoping for. The only way to change the text was to alter it on each individual slide. In addition, slides inserted from older presentations would retain their older copyright year. Changing the year in the Slide Master had no effect on the existing layouts, existing slides, or even new slides that were created. We simply needed to update the copyright year from “2007” to “2008”, but we found this simple task to be very difficult to achieve. In PowerPoint 2007, the footers were now alterable (i.e., you could edit the text and re-position the entire placeholder), and they seemed to be disconnected from what was in the Slide Master. Perfect.Īs my company transitioned over to PowerPoint 2007, we noticed a distinct difference in how the new version of PowerPoint handled these text placeholders. This approach would universally add the text to all of the slides, and it would be unalterable in the normal slide view. In PowerPoint 2003, this text was typically inserted into a footer placeholder within the Slide Master. Corporate templates frequently have text featured on all the slides such as this highlighted copyright and confidentiality statement.

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