without realizing I was in Master View, i created a whole deck. How can I move it to the Normal view to work on it? I tried cutting and pasting and it doesn't paste. I tried opening a new blank deck and pasting, and it doesn't paste it.
Help!

Hi, cmsalva,

I just looked up deck to try to understand what you meant. If I understand correctly, you went to master view, and typed text and maybe added photos/images/graphs? So now all your master slides look the way you want your final slides to look?

I tried duplicating that and I had to delete the text in every textbox that says "Click to edit (whatever)." I can't imagine you doing that over and not thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong here." So could you give more details?

P.S. I just typed some text in master slides and sure enough, the text appears in every slide based on that master. However, I was able to go to Master View, select the textboxes, and cut and paste them in the normal view. Definitely need more info. Could you attach a small sample?

As above more info is needed.

If you simply typed text onto a Title / Text layout and then duplicated id changing the text each time you could probably have a macro fix your presentation

Sub fixMe()
Dim objCL As CustomLayout
Dim L As Long
On Error Resume Next
ActivePresentation.Slides.Range.Delete
For L = ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.CustomLayouts.Count To 1 Step -1
Set objCL = ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.CustomLayouts(L)
If objCL.Shapes(1).HasTextFrame Then
If Not objCL.Shapes(2).TextFrame2.TextRange Like "Click*" And objCL.Shapes(2).PlaceholderFormat.Type = 7 Then
With ActivePresentation.Slides.AddSlide(1, objCL)
.Shapes(1).TextFrame2.TextRange = objCL.Shapes(1).TextFrame2.TextRange
.Shapes(2).TextFrame2.TextRange = objCL.Shapes(2).TextFrame2.TextRange
End With
End If
End If
Next L
End Sub

This will ONLY work if that's exactly what you DID! MAKE SURE YOU WORK ON A COPY!!

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