Learn how to reapply the Slide Layout to your existing slide in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2003 for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows XP and higher
Slide Layouts are arrangements of placeholders that make it easy for you to create consistent looking slides. You can change between the slide layout applied to any slide but there may be times when the slides themselves may have been individually altered so that the consistency factor is absent altogether! Do any of these scenarios sound familiar:
While you can manually correct all these discrepancies, it goes without saying that you will be spending a huge amount of time making these corrections -- and that's entirely unrequired for since we will show you how you can get over this problem with just a friendly click or two.
Look at the slides in Figure 1, which shows all slides within the Slide Sorter view of a sample "bad" presentation -- don't they look like they have been through hell? Fortunately all slides in PowerPoint are invariably based on a template even if you are not aware of this fact -- so we can quickly ask PowerPoint to reset these slides to their pristine, baked-fresh-from-the-template state -- follow these steps to create some magic:
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See Also:
Slide Master and Slide Layouts: Reapplying Slide Layouts in PowerPoint (Index Page)
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