Thanks for the reply, Kimberly. I'm hoping this will work, and I've been digging around in slide master view trying to find out how this will help, but I'm having trouble and I may not understand you.

Just to be clear, I've got a thousand slides, each with it's own (different) text, and on each of those slides I want to duplicate the existing text so that the text appears in two (or more) places on the same slide.

I've tried what you suggest, but I can't make it duplicate the text. I may be missing something in what you are saying, can you give me more details? I really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Lenard