Hello,

I have many slides, each with a text placeholder, always in the same spot, otherwise identical.

I want to modify each slide so that the text placeholder is duplicated at another spot on the slide. I want to do this for every slide. Copy and paste will be very inefficient.

This is for a live theatre production that uses projected super-titles for translation. Thousands of them. We want to project the same titles in multiple places on the stage. We have entered the text in one placeholder, and now we want them all duplicated. It would ideal if the original placeholder a "master", so that if we have to make a change, the duplicated boxes also change.

If that is possible, here's another dream request. In my perfect world, I could duplicate the text in one spot identically, and in another spot with a different shape. The text would appear in three places, two places in a vertical column, and then again in a horizontal line. I might be able to do without this, but it sure would be nice.

Thanks for your input. Feel free to suggest anything, even if it's outside of PowerPoint. I hate the thought of ten hours of copy/paste!

I am using PowerPoint 2003 on Vista, but I have other members of my team with (unspecified) more recent versions, on both Mac and Windows 7, and they could do this task instead of me.

Thanks,



Lenard