PPT2002: Selected Design Applies to All Slides in Presentation (285515)

SYMPTOMS

When you are applying a slide design to a slide, if you click a design template in the Slide Design task pane, all of the slides in your presentation are formatted with the selected slide design.

You are not given the choice of whether to apply the slide design to the entire presentation or only the currently selected slide.

This behavior occurs when you select the Slides view in the left-most pane (the slide navigation pane) in Normal view, or when the slide navigation pane has been closed.

This behavior does not occur when you select the Outline view in the slide navigation pane.

RESOLUTION

To apply a slide design only to the currently selected slide, follow these steps:

In the Slide Design task pane, browse to the slide design that you want. (If the Slide Design task pane is not visible, click Slide Design on the Format menu.)
When you rest the mouse pointer over your selected design in the Slide Design task pane, a gray options button with an arrow appears. Click this button.
Click Apply to Selected Slides in the options button list.

WORKAROUND

You can work around this problem by selecting the Outline view instead of the Slide view in the slide navigation pane. To do this, follow these steps:

If the slide navigation pane has been closed, click Normal (Restore Panes) on the View menu.
In the slide navigation pane, click Outline in the upper left corner.

The Outline view is displayed in the slide navigation pane.

In Outline view, you can apply a slide design to any selected slide with a single click.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about applying design templates, click Microsoft PowerPoint Help on the Help menu, type design template in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topics returned.