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Your existing Tables

Converting your existing presentations to incorporate the new table formatting is extremely easy.

These steps are identical regardless of the actual format and will work for all types of formatting.

1) Open your existing presentation.

2) Create a new presentation title slide using the new Template Wizard toolbar.

3) Copy all the slides (excpet the title slide) into the new presentation.

4) Redefine all your tables to the correct size and position.

Step 1 - Open your existing presentation

For this example we have used PowerPoint's default template.

Step 2 - Create a new presentation

The first button on the Template Wizard toolbar lets you create a new presentation.

The new presentation dialog box is displayed everytime you create a new presentation.

Enter the title, subtitle and date for the presentation you want to convert.

It is possible to modify your existing presentations so they are compatible with the new template.

Any old presentation must have all their slides copied across and pasted into a new presentation.

Step 3 - Copy all the slides across

Use the Window drop-down menu to select your existing presentation.

Select (View > Slide Sorter) and copy all the slides from your existing presentation.

Once the presentation has been copied across all the tables will be adjusted to the new colour scheme automatically.

Step 4 - Redefine your tables

Existing tables will have to be re-formatted.

For more information about redefining existing textboxes please refer the Converting Presentations page.

You can redefine your tables by selecting the table object and selecting the corresponding sizes table from the Table Placeholders drop-down list.

First we need to redefine the slide table on the first slide. Select the table object.

Select "Slide - Table" in the Table Placeholders drop-down list. This will resize and repostion the table.

You can then use the Table fromatting tools and the font size commands to quickly format the table.

We now need to redefine the left and right tables on the second slide in exactly the same way.

Select the table object on the left and select "Table - Slide (Left)" in the Table Placeholders drop-down list.

The table will be resized and repositioned correctly.

You can then use the Table fromatting tools and the font size commands to quickly format the table.

Select the table object on the right and select "Table - Slide (Right)" in the drop-down list.

The table will be resized and repositioned correctly.

You can then use the Table fromatting tools and the font size commands to quickly format the table.

We now need to redefine the textbox and the table on the last slide. Select the textbox on the left hand side.

Select "Slide - Tect (Left)" in the Text Placeholders drop-down list on the Template Wizard toolbar.

This will define the textbox accordingly.

The correct formatting will be applied and the textbox will also be positioned in the correct place automatically.

We now need to redefine the last table. Select the table object.

Select "Slide - Table (Right)" in the drop-down list on the Table Format toolbar. This will resize and reposition the table.

You can then use the Table formatting tools and the font size commands to quickly format the table.