Created a new Master slide. Existing slides are not changing.

[Stereo]

I'm editing PPts that were submitted to us for viewing at our Conference. I changed the Master Slide to what I needed but the existing slides are not conforming to the new formatting even after I reset them. Instead they're taking on the default bullet formatting which is different from both the Master slide and the original slide.

Specifically, in my Master slide, I created a blue arrow bullet similar to the original design, but with different size and spacing. What I get instead is a round black dot bullet. Font is correct (it changes to match the Master) but spacing is not.

And the new bullet I created doesn't show up in the bullet design options so I can't just change the bulleting design by selecting the new style; I'd have to create a new bullet style for every slide!

I've double checked that there aren't additional slide masters under the top slide.

To try and get around the problem, instead of just changing the Master Slide on the original PPt, I creating a new PPt with my desired formatting and then tried copying slides from the original PPt into it, but they do the same thing, i.e. the bullet changes to a black dot instead of the blue arrow of the Master slide.

What could be keeping slides from following the Master???

Your help is greatly appreciated. I need a shortcut. I'm putting in 13-hr days trying to clean up these PPts in time for our Conference.

[JohnWilson]

Did you select all slides and click reset (Home tab)?

[Stereo]

I was trying it one slide at a time and it didn't work. I now tried selecting all at once and resetting but still no luck. The mystery here is that the PPT is neither keeping the old format nor taking on the Master format. It's doing it's own thing as far as bullets go.

[JohnWilson]

can you post just one slide somewhere that does this?

You did check that the text is in a placeholder??

[Stereo]

I'm not familiar with how to check if it's in a placeholder. It sounds like that could be the issue. If it is, how do I fix it?

[Stereo]

I tried deleting the content, re-setting the slide, and copying it back in, but it still didn't work.

[JohnWilson]

It's a mess!

It is (sort of) a placeholder but someone has copy pasted the placeholder in from another slide! If you select the slide and VIEW > Slide Master. Look which layout is selected. BLANK which has NO placeholders!

Try applying the Title and Content layout and see if that helps or create a new text only layout (I did this in the upload)

[Stereo]

Thank you. I'm sure one of those solutions will work. I can fix aesthetics, but I don't have a lot of knowledge about editing the structure - and neither do most of our presenters, obviously. Curious though, why wouldn't it have worked to create a brand new PPt, then copy and paste ONLY the content into the new PPt?

[JohnWilson]

If you copied the content only into a new content placeholder it should.

Try copying my new layout in slide master view and paste into your layouts. Then select all the troublesome slides and apply the new layout from HOME > Layout

[Stereo]

No luck. But at this point, it's taking me longer to figure out a solution that will apply to all the slides than to just make the adjustment slide by slide. But I do appreciate your help. I'm already smarter because of you.