Updating Text in several PPT presentations

External Since: May 8, 2009 Posts: 1

I have several presentation which have the same text on several pages and
then specialized text for the rest. I have problems with people change text
in one and not carrying it through to the other presentations. Is there a
way to create a "master" which people could edit and then it would flow
through to the other presentations?

External Since: Apr 13, 2009 Posts: 4

>I have several presentation which have the same text on several pages and
> then specialized text for the rest. I have problems with people change
> text
> in one and not carrying it through to the other presentations. Is there a
> way to create a "master" which people could edit and then it would flow
> through to the other presentations?

There is no automatic way in PowerPoint (like REF-fields in Word) to fill in
text in one position and have it copied to other positions.

- You can either use VBA to have them enter the text in a dialog box and
programmatically update the other slides. There is an add-in called PPT
Merge, [URL="http://www.pptools.com/merge/index.html"]http://www.pptools.com/merge/index.html[/URL], which can do that for you.

- Or you use Find and Replace to change the text.

Best regards,
Ute