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Here is our 'Blue' presentation:

And here is our 'Purple' presentation:

Select the slides from Presentation #1 (Blue) and copy. Then paste them into Presentation #2 (Purple). To paste in the new slides, right-click and in the pop-up menu in the ‘Paste Options’ sections select ‘KEEP SOURCE FORMATTING':

With the KEEP SOURCE FORMATTING option the template for the new slides keeps the template that was used in Presentation #1. So the Blue slides stay Blue.

Behind the scenes what happens is a new Master Slide set is added to the presentation. So if you look in the slide layouts (HOME >> SLIDES section >> LAYOUTS) there are two master slide sets to choose from (Purple and Blue).

NOTE: if you paste in more slides from the Blue presentation in a new location and select KEEP SOURCE FORMATTING another Blue master slide set will be added (which is not optimal).

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Here is our 'Blue' presentation:

And here is our 'Purple' presentation:

Select the slides from Presentation #1 (Blue) and copy. The paste them into Presentation #2 (Purple). To paste in the new slides, right-click and in the pop-up menu in the ‘Paste Options’ sections select ‘Use Destination Theme’:

With the USE DESTINATION THEME option the template for the new slides is assigned to the template used on the slide in front of the insert point. So now all of the Blue slides are changed to the Purple template.

*Note: there is no "magic" button and with this example the text boxes, background, colors used, etc. were all setup correctly using the template formatting (which also means it is a real template). When updating to the new (Purple) template all of the master slide formatting carries over just fine. But there are lots of times when things are not based on template formatting and need to be manually updated (ie. no magic format button).

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Scenario:
You have shadow effects on your text and a great on-click animation.

But when you view as a slide show, the shadow of the text is not animating!

To Fix:
1. Select the text box.

2. Go to FORMAT >> SHAPE EFFECTS >> SHADOW and change the selection to NO SHADOW.

3. With the text box still selected, go to FORMAT >> TEXT EFFECTS >> SHADOW and choose the shadow style needed.

4. Now when you run as a slide show everything appears when animated!

Why:
PowerPoint has always had two types of shadows; Shape and Text shadows. In PPT 2003 there really was no visual differece between them (at the code level the two shadow types were different). Starting with PPT 2007 the difference between the two shadows types made a difference in how things are displayed. The non-animating text shadow is the most common way this shows up.

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Thanks Tony R. for the link to this great presentation.

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