Copy and paste is not necessary, since one can always copy and slide (inheriting whatever master) instead, and that works fine between different. People are trying all sorts of desperate hacks out there!Īdding the 'duplicate' feature would be enough, in my mind, if that's easier. That's the use-case for this bug - being able to duplicate master slides makes it much easier to develop a set of master slides with a common theme/styling. Having set up the font for titles and outline text, one cannot copy a master slide in order to create the different 'variants' that a complete template requires. What seems to work well is creating the master slides again from scratch! But this is very tedious, because of the current bug. There seem to be various issues with the support for master slides in Impress - certain attempts to edit text styles don't get kept, and it's all a bit mystifying, especially when starting with PPTX templates that have been generated in a recent Powerpoint version. Its master modified, then copied back to the original If a single slide is copied from an original ODP to a new ODP, then its master slide edited, then the slide is copied back top the original ODP, the modified master does not overwrite the master in the original ODP. How can I convince Impress to think that the master slide in original.odp is NOT the same as the master slide in new.odp?Ĭopying styled slides therefore has some very strange behaviour that depends on the exact way that the masters were created. I thought it might be possible to hack the "copy master" behaviour by tweaking the name field in the styles.xml file embedded inside original.odp. This is because the master slide is being recognised as "equivalent" in both cases, and the modifications in the original ODP are being dropped when the slide is copied to the new ODP.Įxpected result: perhaps it would be expected to be asked if (1) the existing master slide used (2) the new master used to replace the old master, or (3) a duplicate master added, so that both slides can look just as they were before. Result: the master-slide text "TEST" does not appear in the copied slide. copy the slide from the first ODP to the second ODP
modify the *master* slide by placing a text box "TEST" on it, close the master.ģ.
Master slides seem to carry some kind of unique ID code with them, to help reformatting of slides when they are being restyled.Ģ. There is a some 'clever' but infuriating behaviour hiding behind this bug.
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