Hands Off My Master

If you provide templates for a large work team you will have been here! Your template has lovely fonts and a company colour scheme and is carefully aligned. But when the presentation comes back "they" have changed some of the fonts to Algerian and some to Blackadder all in a nice shade of lime green and red. Plus they've moved the placeholders around and changed the background colour. None of this follows the master of course.

Option 1 involves big hammers and unfortunately it's not legal here in the UK

Option 2 is run this macro

It's not guaranteed to solve everything but it will try! Make sure that you run it on a copy just in case. It will fail if you have muliple masters of course.

Sub Hands_Off_my_master()
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
Dim osld As Slide
Dim Slay As PpSlideLayout
ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.Background.PickUp
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
Slay = osld.Layout
osld.Layout = Slay
osld.Background.Apply
Next osld
Exit Sub
ErrHandler:
MsgBox "Error:Sorry!", vbCritical, "www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk"
End Sub

Can't use vba? See the tutorial here.

Try it on a file of ours first!