Stacy,
Is this in 2003, by chance? If so, it could be a known bug about the order
of the masters.

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"Stacy P." wrote in message
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Thanks Rick. I have applied certain masters to different slides, but
sometimes i will open the presentation to see that certain slides are
changed
back to the way they originally were, when i first made the presentation.
I
have password protected it to make sure that nobody else is messing with
it,
but i honestly think there is a default option on or something. It is not
the entire presentation that is changing, only some slides. I have 5
master
slides and i have every slide allocated to a master layout, and for some
reason, every time i open the presentation, only some slides from one
master
are changed back to the original format. I think my computer is
possessed!!
Thanks for the help though.

"Rick Altman" wrote:

Stacy, there might be more going on here than a first impression conveys,
but I will start by pointing out an annoying aspect of the slide master
engine:

The standard maneuver that you would expect to perform to apply a master
to
a slide actually ends up applying that master to EVERY slide.

I find this to be an example of very poor program design, but be that as
it
may, it is important for us users to remember that if we want to apply a
master to a particular slide, when we see the desired master in the task
pane, we must right-click (or click the downward-pointing arrow) and then
find Apply to Selected Slide on the drop-down. The default choice (the
top
one on this menu) is Apply to All.

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