Pasting slides - keeping source formating - notes pages text color goes to white - illegible

Question

Hi folks,

I am trying to sort out an issue with some client slides. We have created a slide deck with extensive slide notes. We know that sometimes the slides will be copied into other decks and are advising they use keep source formatting when they paste. This works for the slides, BUT for the notes pages view we are finding that the notes text pastes white, and cannot be read, and each notes page has to be changed to black text [painful!]  What settings or themes can we change/update to ensure that the notes text retains the black text of the original 

thanks

Simon

Answer 1

Is it possible to post BOTH a slide from the copied presentation and a slide from the presentation you are pasting into somewhere online (One Drive etc)? Real slides not images.

While this is not the real answer this macro should set all notes to black as a workaround for now.

Sub Notes_Black()

Dim osld As Slide

For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides

If osld.NotesPage.Shapes(2).Type = msoPlaceholder Then

If osld.NotesPage.Shapes(2).PlaceholderFormat.Type = 2 Then

osld.NotesPage.Shapes(2).TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = vbBlack

End If

End If

Next

End Sub

Answer 2

Thanks John, that note page master may be the issue, if you look at the attached image, the original has black text for notes, the new document with the pasted slide maintains all slide master elements, but the notes text is now white. Other notes pages in this new template deck have black text, so not sure why the pasted notes change to white. I am unaware of other settings or masters that allow me to define this.

Answer 3

Presentations can only have one notes master so notes in a pasted presentation will usually take their format from the original notes master even if "Keep Source" is selected> Are you saying the original notes master is not set to white text. 

If so can a sample of the original and donor presentations (one slide each) somewhere.

You may get different results if you manually change the notes in the donor presentation so they don't follow the notes master.

Answer 4

Thanks Mike, but reading that link it only applies to Word. Using Keep Source Formattingin PPT doesn't maintain the source formatting of the Notes text when pasting multiple slides into a different slide template, and this is my frustration.

Cheers

Simon

Answer 5

Hi, this link might help: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Control-the-formatting-when-you-paste-text-20156a41-520e-48a6-8680-fb9ce15bf3d6