In Mac Office 2008 12.01, only theme files are shown in the theme gallery.
As suggested by Cyber, click Browse button and apply your custom template
to
the presentation and save the file as theme (.thmx) in
Users/Library/Application Sup****t/Microsoft/Office/User templates/My
templates/My Themes. Please use Save as menu or click Save Theme...
button
in Do***ent Theme panel in the Formatting Palette. Please note if you
save
your custom theme to other location than My Themes folder, it will not
show
up in the theme gallery.
Thank you
Keiko
Mac Office Test
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On 4/29/08 8:44 AM, in article ee998f4.4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Barbara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <Barbara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> OK, thanks Bob! I'll give it a try and see how it goes.
>
>> Hi Barbara -
>>
>> Sorry if you got the wrong impression, but your issue isn't quite the
same
>> as Heather's - she's found that she *can* still use her old Design
Templates
>> (.pot) but no longer has the ability to preview them before applying.
They
>> do not appear in the Elements Gallery -Slide Themes & don't provide a
>> preview in the Open or Browse dialogs, but that can be addressed.
>>
>> The short-term solution for you is to use the Browse button in the
>> Formatting Palette - Do***ent Theme section or the one in Elements
Gallery -
>> Slide Themes section. Navigate to where the templates are stored &
select
>> the one you want to apply to the slides. For the long-term...
>>
>> In order to actually have them appear in the Elements Gallery as Custom
>> Themes, however, they have to be saved as Do***ent Themes (.thmx) in
the
>> default My Themes folder. They can also be saved in the same location
as the
>> Built-in themes. In either location they must be saved in .thmx format
in
>> order to appear in the Gallery - IOW you can't just move the .pot files
>> and/or just change their extension.
>>
>> Once you apply or Open one of the Design Templates you can use the
>> Formatting Palette -Do***ent Theme - Save Theme feature to create a
Do***ent
>> Theme based on the Design Template.
>>
>> HTH |:>)
>> Bob Jones
>> [MVP] Office:Mac
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/28/08 5:34 PM, in article ee998f4.2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> "Barbara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" wrote:
>>
>>> I have the same issue as Heather. In the past, I believe I have been
able to
>>> use Design Templates either for new presentations or to change the
design of
>>> an existing presentation. In the current version it appears we cannot
do
>>> that.
>>> However, I have 30 existing custom templates that are company branded,
and I
>>> want to be able to change out the design when desired for existing PP
>>> presentations.
>>> Is this not possible anymore with the new version of Office for Mac?
Is
>>> there
>>> a way of converting existing template files to "themes" and having
them
>>> accessible in the "Custom Themes" tab?
>>> Please don't force me back to my PC. It is frustrating that easy
functions
>>> have been made more complicated or removed altogether on the Mac side.
>>
>>
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