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How can I insert a document property (e.g. the author's name) in a slide in PowerPoint 2007? I know this can be done in Microsoft Word, but I can't find how to do it in PowerPoint.
(The idea is that with a document property it is easy to change e.g. the content of the footer in all the slides, even if you use different master pages. If there is a different solution, that would be fine as well.)
I am aware that this question is primarily about Office 2007. This option is available in 2010, and may be missing in 2007.
This is based on harrymc's comment.
Copy the entire PowerPoint slide. Select the slide thumbnail on the left list and press CtrlC
Click the arrow under Paste in Word; select Paste Special.... CtrlAltV does the same thing.
Select the Paste link radio button and Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Object
As you may have noticed in my screenshots from the paste special, the link is actually specified by filename.pptx!slidenumber. I've tried, but it seems it's not possible to specify the slide number in this way when adding as an object. When adding an object, the only way to get a Slide rather than a Presentation is to create a new one, not add from file.
Basically, just use the paste special method.
Seems like the template I was working with was slightly corrupt. When (in the master view) I deleted the "Content" textbox that I formatted - and reinserted it (clicking Master Layout and checking Text), the new textbox showed the messed-up formatting that was used as a default. Once I changed this again back to the format I wanted, everything works as expected...
Best Answer
While Word can do this, PowerPoint can't. AFAIK, you can have document properties in PPT, but you cannot insert them on a slide. The only updating field available for PowerPoint is the date and slide number. Anyway, there could be some workaround in VBA to achieve this. You can ask this on Stackoverflow to take your chance.