Multiple duplicate slide masters
Mar 07, 2011
As per Tom's advice, if I used the same background for at least 3 slides, I created a slide master in ppt to speed up publishing. Worked great until my file got corrupted. I had to create a new file by inserting all my previous slides in the new file. I saved the new file and low and behold, It created about a hundred duplicates of the slidemasters. The majority of my slides use one basic template and it created a separate slidemaster for each of my slides. I cannot delete them. So now, instead of speeding up publishing, it is taking longer as it has to publish each of the slide masters. I would like to delete all the slidemasters and just copy the originals I had. Does anyone know how to do this? Very annoying....
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Hi Alanna, you may need to go through a little bit of a different process.
1. Create a new file.
2. Go back to the old file, select one of the object on the screen.
3. Click the format tab and open up the Selection Pane.
4. CTRL-Click and select all the object in the Selection Pane.
5. Copy them
6. Paste into the new file.
7. You will need to repeat this for each slide.
It's a bit tedious but it will copy the images and the programmed animations without the background.
OR
I'm assuming you changed the layout on all the slides and dropped those into a new file.
Of course, I'm just conjecturing here. Let me know if any of this is helpful
**shrugging shoulders**
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