Powerpoint - Master Slides & Styles

First, please state what version of Powerpoint you're using.
Maybe it's your wording, but it quite confusing on what you want to do.
"Here is the problem: I have edited the Master Slide to the way I want it. However, there is no way of matching up the style types.
I want to go through the PowerPoint slide and apply the styles from my Master."
If you format anything on the Slide Master, then that'll affect every slide in the presentation, except the Title slide if you have a Title Master. So, the above quote is confusing.
Also, and maybe this is what you want, you can create your own Custom Design template which will be shown along with your system templates. Then you would open a presentation and just select your custom design.
Maybe reexplaining what you want would help.

fneily,

I apologize for the confusion, i will try to explain better.

I am using PP 2003.

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The old powerpoint presentation did not use a Master Slide and they did not make very much use of bullet points either.

I have now set up the Master Slide the way I want it. However, when I go through the presentation and change non-bullet pointed information into bulleted information, the format from the Master Slide does not apply.

The Master Slide formatting for bullet points only works on existing bullet points or new bullet points that i insert.

So, what I want is this: I want to be able to highlight a sentence or paragraph and designate it as something like "Level 1 Bullet". Then it will format like whatever "Level 1 Bullet" is designated in the Master Slide.

hopefully that made more sense.

Much clearer.
On the old slide with the sentences/paragraphs, can you tell how they did it? Did they use a textbox from the Drawing toolbar?
It is strange they didn't use one of the bullet slide options. I just made a bullet slide, typed some info, then deleted the bullets. Then I reformatted the slide master and the sentences still were changed in the slide. So I quess they didn't delete the bullets.
Also typed some lines, then selected them and use the bullet button to add bullets. That didn't work. I think you did that.
I also did this:
Created a blank slide and then used the Textbox from the drawing toolbar and typed some lines.
Then I added a new bulleted slide. Next to the first bullet, I typed a single letter. I then copied the lines from the old slide and pasted them next to the first letter. Then I deleted the spaces between the lines and then hit enter where I wanted to create new bullets. Then reformated using the Slide master. Long, but it worked. Of course if you have 200 slides this will be a pain.
There has to be an initial bind between the slide master and the bulleted slide.
Maybe someone else can help or have some VBA code to do it.

yeah i figured that there has to be an initial bind so i was hoping for a feature like they now have in Word 2003 where you can specify what "style type" a certain piece/group of text is.

It would be so helpful if I could just highlight a paragraph in PowerPoint and specify it as "Level 1 Bullet" and then have it automatically formatted based on the Master Slide.

In the mean time, I will be doing this by hand (150+ slides) so hopefully someone has a answer.

Thanks!!!

This might(?) speed things up a little. Copy all the old slides(the text) into a word document. Then in the document, constuct an outline the way you want using Headings1, Headings2, etc.
When you're finished, go to PowerPoint and import the document. Based on the Headings1, etc. the slides will be created for you and then you can create a slide master and do your reformatting.

thx ill give it a try.