I have about 150 presenters that are trying to cut and paste their old presentations into a new template that I created. Now I am getting bombarded with complaints that they are having issues when they cut and paste their old material.
I totally understand how to use "keep and use destination" formatting, what I'm looking for is a way to create a template that no matter what gets cut and pasted in to the new deck the formatting stays the way I want it to stay.
Hey Tim! I don't know of any way to get existing slides into your template without making the choice of which formatting to apply. One thing you might try is the Insert » New Slide » Reuse Slides option. WIth the template you want open, that will let you point to another file and import the slides into the existing template format.
Just make sure that "Keep source formatting" check box is off and you should be good.
That totally works for brining in graphics. I even had what looked like an ungrouped clipart that that I saved as a picture and pasted into the new template. Animations are a bit tricky but if I select all and paste using Keep source formatting everything worked as advertised.
Hi Tim. This case is more common than you can imagine.
As @Mike described earlier, you can use the Reuse Slide option.
Aside of discrepancies in the slide layout, notice that one of the main issues while copying shapes from a existing presentation into a new one is preserving the desired colors. An alternative to making sure your users are going to use the same colors while copying and paste is to use "Standard Color" from the color palette.
There is a difference between using Colors from the Color Theme vs. Standard Color palette. While Color Themes are associated with the current presentation theme, the standard colors are fixed for the object or shape. If you need to preserve colors in some situations, you'd want to use standard colors. A simple scenario to understand this idea can be seen in a slide containing a traffic light with three colors (green, yellow and red). You want to preserve these colors even if the slide is copied to a new presentation with a different color palette, so the standard colors are useful in this case.
I am not a PowerPoint guru and that is why I prefer turning for a help with such issues to essay writers. There are proficient authors and I’ve been never disappointed in the presentation quality.
Have you saved your template as a Theme? That way there is no need to import slides into a template. You can open the existing ppt , click on Design and select the appropriate theme.
If the presenters are doing the transformation themselves, you can send them the template so that they can save it as a Theme (best to choose an appropriate name for the theme in order to locate it easier).
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Hey Tim! I don't know of any way to get existing slides into your template without making the choice of which formatting to apply. One thing you might try is the Insert » New Slide » Reuse Slides option. WIth the template you want open, that will let you point to another file and import the slides into the existing template format.
Just make sure that "Keep source formatting" check box is off and you should be good.
Mike
Hi Mike!
Soooo close! I never had to use this technique great tip!!
Honestly I got another email complaint about cutting and pasting issues... At a loss trying to transfer easy tips that just dont seem to sink in.:(
Again thanks Mike!
Tim
It's a partial hack at best.... but another option is having them use "Save As Picture" for the key content then import the image into the new PPT.
Hi Bob,
That totally works for brining in graphics. I even had what looked like an ungrouped clipart that that I saved as a picture and pasted into the new template. Animations are a bit tricky but if I select all and paste using Keep source formatting everything worked as advertised.
Tim
Hi Tim. This case is more common than you can imagine.
As @Mike described earlier, you can use the Reuse Slide option.
Aside of discrepancies in the slide layout, notice that one of the main issues while copying shapes from a existing presentation into a new one is preserving the desired colors. An alternative to making sure your users are going to use the same colors while copying and paste is to use "Standard Color" from the color palette.
There is a difference between using Colors from the Color Theme vs. Standard Color palette. While Color Themes are associated with the current presentation theme, the standard colors are fixed for the object or shape. If you need to preserve colors in some situations, you'd want to use standard colors. A simple scenario to understand this idea can be seen in a slide containing a traffic light with three colors (green, yellow and red). You want to preserve these colors even if the slide is copied to a new presentation with a different color palette, so the standard colors are useful in this case.
I am not a PowerPoint guru and that is why I prefer turning for a help with such issues to essay writers. There are proficient authors and I’ve been never disappointed in the presentation quality.
Try...Copy and Paste Slides into the right size Power Point (matching your destination SL file) then export PPT, then import into Storyline.
Hi Tim
Have you saved your template as a Theme? That way there is no need to import slides into a template. You can open the existing ppt , click on Design and select the appropriate theme.
If the presenters are doing the transformation themselves, you can send them the template so that they can save it as a Theme (best to choose an appropriate name for the theme in order to locate it easier).
Hope that helps.
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