Having trouble with layout master slides

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First off:

1. I am very new to PowerPoint, and I am using 2007.

2. I checked Microsoft's Knowledge Base and didn't find what I needed, but that could be because I don't know the exact terminology to use to find it?

That said, I am working on a PowerPoint template and have set up some layout master slides.

For purposes of illustration I will focus on just one of them - "Staffing/Personnel". It has a title at the top ("Staffing/Personnel"), and two columns of copy that are made up of an indented heirarchy of bulleted text - First 24 point (no indent), then a line of 20 point (tabbed once), and then multiple lines of 14 point (tabbed again).When I add a new slide in normal view and specify the "Staffing/Personnel" layout, it gives me the correct title but only gives me the first line of text at 24 point.

Is there a way to ensure that I can have it display both whole, formatted columns of copy when a new page is created? I would like end users to be able to just replace copy and not worry about tabbing or formatting. We're figuring that this will help us keep the end users from screwing up the layout too much.

I hope that makes sense and thank you for any information you can give.