Here's a strange one-- I have inherited several slide presentations that have varying combinations of funky complex bullet/sub-bullet formatting in the slide notes. However, they do not follow the notes master layout, it seems each one was formatted individually. Maybe even pasted from other presentations.

I've got to send this deck out to a company who is using a proprietary software that reads the slides and the notes and outputs them for online use. They claim their system can only read text in the "main" notes layout box. So if someone for example pasted a textbox of bullets onto the notes page as a loose textbox, it would not be read by their system. So of course, as it stands, several of the notes are not showing up for them.

I've got to figure out which notes page maybe a problem child for this software. Reapplying the notes layout and repasting hundreds of proofread texboxes isn't really an option.

I'm guessing that most of the notes will show up, but many won't:

Is there a quick way to simulate this: distinguish between a notes text box that is "properly" attached to the main notes layout and a loose text box?



I'm not a programmer, and am not sure how their software reads PPT and its masters etc. Sorry if confusing, I'm scratching my melon myself.