PowerPoint 2010 - Add Title or Subtitle PlaceHolders

• Jun 5, 2014

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Could you explain?

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The default slides in PowerPoint have a Title box, where it says "click to add text", and a Subtitle box that says the same thing. Well, I went and deleted those on some slides, thinking I wouldn't need them, but now I've changed my mind. I could just create blank new slides, copy/paste/edit, but figured surely there is a way to add the title/subtitle objects back since I could delete them.

Does that help?

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I'd just add a slide containing those placeholders, add my title & subtitle, COPY those boxes & then PASTE into whatever slides I needed to.

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I know, it'd get the job done for now, but surely there's another way.

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FYI - for anyone who reads this, and gets into the "Slide Master" and has no clue how to get back to the actual slides, there is a big red X box in the ribbon, on the Slide Master Tab while there that says "Close Master View" - so if you go to a different tab, you may feel like you're trapped in the Master slide setup, like I almost did.

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For the time being, I just fixed it with the old Copy/Paste thing. What I'd really like to figure out how to do is convert an existing (non "Place Holder") object to a Place Holder object. Maybe I'm expecting PowerPoint to work like Visio in that regard, b/c it seems I remember Visio will allow you to change the object types.

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• Jun 5, 2014

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At least in older pp (2003) you can choose slide layout, whatever the template is. When you click the desired layout, powerpoint add placeholders accordingly,

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Hmm... cool... I wonder if that still works. I might as well give it a shot, won't hurt anything. I can save before, then if it does mess something up, close without saving.

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Well, so far, I didn't see any differences. Of course, I may be looking in the wrong spots. Anyway, I'm still learning on this one - have used off and on over the years, but may get into it a lot deeper than previously expected due to a current ongoing/regular project I have.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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