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PPT Office Pro Plus 2013 - How can I copy the same positioning to all 50 slides in PowerPoint for all 4 shapes?

Anonymous
2017-03-29T21:00:34+00:00

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I have 50 slides with 4 identical size shapes on each slide.

How can I copy the same positioning to all 50 PowerPoint slides for all 4 shapes?

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Steve Rindsberg 99,161 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2017-03-30T19:18:59+00:00

Thanks for the illustrations and added explanation. 

I have a free add-in that'd let you "memorize" the position/size of the first shape on any one slide.  After that, you'd click on the corresponding shape on the next slide and click a button to apply the memorized position/size to the selected shape.

You can opt to have it resize or not.

You'd memorize a shape, then apply it to the correct shape on each of the other slides, then go back and memorize the next shape, apply to the other slides and anon.

Beats the heck out of the formatting pane (pain?) for all this.

The add-in is called THOR (because you hammer stuff into position with it). It's available here.

http://www.pptools.com/free/FAQ00002-THOR-The-Hammer.htm

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-03-30T15:30:48+00:00

    Do the shapes have the same name on each of the slides?

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-03-30T13:57:14+00:00

    There are 4 identical shaped and positioned images, on multiple slides, but with all different data.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-03-30T13:42:30+00:00

    Thanks for your reply.

    They are identical size shapes and identical positioning, but all different data, so that would not work.

    I only want to copy the location/formatting/positioning of each of the shapes to each page.

    Similar to "Format Painter" but for positioning.

    For example, duplicate these cropping and positioning dimensions.

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  4. Steve Rindsberg 99,161 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-03-30T02:08:47+00:00

    If the same shapes appear on all 50 slides already, you could delete them on all but one slide, then copy/paste from that slide to the other slides (Ctrl+C to copy, then PageDown, Ctrl+V until done.

    That would seem to be the simplest way to go about it, even if it's a bit tedious.  Once all the excess shapes are deleted, pasting them back into place would be quite quick.

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