Microsoft Powerpoint 2010

[Talenhawk]

I am creating a powerpoint for our lobby. It will have 200 slides with the same line of text at the bottom of all of them. It will say something like "We would like to welcome John Doe to our business". Daily our receptionist would change John Doe to our expected customers for that day.

The problem is that I only know how to do it so that the receptionist would have to change all 200 slides one at a time. There has to be a way to change it on the first slide and have it change on all the slides.

Any assistance is appreciated.

 

[USAFRet]

Create a Footer.

On the Insert ribbon, select Header & Footer.
Click on the Footer checkbox.
Enter your text Click "Apply to All".
Your text is now at the bottom of every slide.

Tomorrow, just change the text and click "Apply to All" again

 

[Talenhawk]

Can I change the font, size, color, and exact location of the footer. Otherwise it doesn't look very professional as a lobby greeting.

 

[USAFRet]

Can I change the font, size, color, and exact location of the footer. Otherwise it doesn't look very professional as a lobby greeting.

Yes, but I think that has to be done on each slide individually. Only once, though. The text will alter as needed.

Unless we want to get into filling a textbox programatically. Doable, but a lot more complex.