I am in dire need of a PowerPoint guru who can solve my problem. Please help. I created a PowerPoint template (.POT) file, and I saved it and tried to use it in an existing PowerPoint presentation by going to the Format menu and then Slide Design to integrate the two. It worked, but only to a degree, because in the already existing presentation, in which I was trying to insert the Slide Design, the text boxes that the person had placed all showed up with white fill. So, the new background format was applied, but the text boxes in the already existing presentation were screwed up. My manager and I have tried everything to get them to work, and no one seems to know how to fix that, and these should have been done yesterday. I am using PowerPoint 2003 on Windows XP. Also, when I created the template, I’m sure I did it correctly. I created the first page of the template as a master slide and then a title slide for the slides following that would have the same theme as one another.

The problem seems to be that that you are setting up one type of template and then inserting another type of template half way through and powerpoint is having problems deciding which one it should use. I don't know how complex or how large the presentations are but a couple of things you may try are rename your .pot to .ppt and see if it behaves itself when you insert it insert the slides individualy, even revert to cut n paste as a last resort put the slides you want to import as full screen press prt scrn and paste the resultant bitmaps onto blank slides in the destnation slide show Techy n Welsh