> But as you note PPT is missing so much of what Freelance had years ago.
Printing of handouts is
just awful - so much wasted space and you can't control it!
I had to wrestle mightily with FL at one point over similar issues. We
had to produce hundreds of
manual pages from various FL presentations. While FL did a nice job, it
didn't do what the client
wanted and my, did that ever turn into a tale.
There's a nice add-in for the Windows version that helps to solve that
problem, but I doubt it
runs on Mac PPT of any version (and certainly not 2008).
But sometimes you can print 1-per-page slides rather than handouts to PDF
then use Acrobat Reader
or the printer driver's n-up feature to print the PDF as n-up handouts.
> Aside: do you know if they still ****p the "For Dummies" book with
FL/SmartSuite
> instead of a manual?
>
> As far as I can tell you can't really buy it now other than on a sup****t
contract basis - its
really odd. I last purchased a copy 18 months ago to get an update so that
it was stable on XP/SP2
from a third party vendor and it was just a CD box - no manual no nothing.
Thanks ... I had a hand in writing the book and was curious to see if it
was still floating around
out there. My last copy of SmartSuite came with a Tosh laptop but at
least they included the CD.
> ... non-pro****tional font. Once you manually format text
differently from
> the master, PPT pretty much leaves it alone, even if you switch
masters.
>
> Or if you don't need the HTML text to appear in the outline, you
can add
> a new text box using the drawing tools and format the text to
taste.
>
> Thank you Steve - I hadn't thought about that approach.
>
> Do you know if it is possible to get an existing text block to "attach"
to the master text block
the way Freelance lets you?
Not that I know of.
>I can live with my HTML etc. stuff not being controlled by a master
(although it is frustrating)
but having to manually tweak every single page ...
Another trick, if you haven't already entered all the text:
Format one text block and add some dummy text, then copy/paste it into
other slides as needed.
Then you can select all the text in the block and type or copy/paste the
real text.
There's also the format painter ... if you doubleclick it, it should stay
active for multiple
applications of the formatting it's stored, so you could pick up
formatting from one text box then
skip through the pressie applying formatting to other text boxes as
needed.
> Since you know Freelance some perhaps you also know if PPT has any way
to allows you to pick up
attributes for an object/text-block and apply them to another similar
object?
See above ... I got ahead of myself.
> Do you by any chance know if some of these issues are addressed by the
2008 version?
I'm mostly a Windows guy ... my main reason for using the Mac versions of
PPT is to test the
add-ins and other VBA code I write. 2008 doesn't have VBA so I don't have
2008. Easiest upgrade
decision I've ever had to make. <g>
VBA is supposed to reappear in the next version; gives me time to save my
pennies.
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