Upgrading your Lotusphere slides to the latest LS2010 template that was shipped...
Category LS10
I've been part of a chat of late where the subject of Lotusphere presentation templates has been "discussed"... Actually, it's been 98% ranting (and for good reason), but that's another topic. Basically, the templates sent to the Lotusphere speakers for the session slides don't seem to be set up very well to apply to existing slide files. Getting your slides *into* ODP format in the first place is yet another blog posting entirely. Anyway...
On the two sessions I'm involved with, we had finally gotten the slides converted to the first version of the LS10 template, only to have another version show up this last week. And true to form, the template didn't update the existing slides following menu options that you'd think would work (or that the help file would lead you to).
But we have a secret weapon... Julian Robichaux!
In the chat, he offered a couple of solutions that showed some possibilities for getting the new template applied. The first method worked perfectly for me, and he mentioned that it should be posted for others to use if needed. And since he's at an office party and who knows WHAT you'd get if he blogged it, I'm filling the gap and listing the steps here...
[10:20:45 AM] Julian Robichaux: here's what I did
[10:22:18 AM] Julian Robichaux: anyway, in Symphony, open your presentation
[10:22:46 AM] Julian Robichaux: then do File - Template Organizer - Launch
[10:23:03 AM] Julian Robichaux: Actions - Import Template
[10:23:27 AM] Julian Robichaux: choose the "template" file that they sent us, and name it something reasonable
own fonts/ styles etc
[10:24:06 AM] Julian Robichaux: then go to the title slide in your presentation, right-click it, and choose Page Design
[10:24:14 AM] Julian Robichaux: click the "More" button
[10:24:29 AM] Julian Robichaux: choose the template you just imported, and apply the title slide style
[10:25:31 AM] Julian Robichaux: then do the same thing with the second slide in the deck, use the Text Master or whatever it's called, and apply to all the slides other than the title slide
Given that I was looking at manually copying and pasting slides, I was VERY happy to see this work as advertised...
Oh, I did mention he offered a couple of solutions... If the first option either doesn't work or appeal to you, try the second option he offered...
[10:26:09 AM] Julian Robichaux: or, you can just do whatever the hell you want. That works too
:)
Seriously... thanks for sharing this, Julian!
I've been part of a chat of late where the subject of Lotusphere presentation templates has been "discussed"... Actually, it's been 98% ranting (and for good reason), but that's another topic. Basically, the templates sent to the Lotusphere speakers for the session slides don't seem to be set up very well to apply to existing slide files. Getting your slides *into* ODP format in the first place is yet another blog posting entirely. Anyway...
On the two sessions I'm involved with, we had finally gotten the slides converted to the first version of the LS10 template, only to have another version show up this last week. And true to form, the template didn't update the existing slides following menu options that you'd think would work (or that the help file would lead you to).
But we have a secret weapon... Julian Robichaux!
In the chat, he offered a couple of solutions that showed some possibilities for getting the new template applied. The first method worked perfectly for me, and he mentioned that it should be posted for others to use if needed. And since he's at an office party and who knows WHAT you'd get if he blogged it, I'm filling the gap and listing the steps here...
[10:20:45 AM] Julian Robichaux: here's what I did
[10:22:18 AM] Julian Robichaux: anyway, in Symphony, open your presentation
[10:22:46 AM] Julian Robichaux: then do File - Template Organizer - Launch
[10:23:03 AM] Julian Robichaux: Actions - Import Template
[10:23:27 AM] Julian Robichaux: choose the "template" file that they sent us, and name it something reasonable
own fonts/ styles etc
[10:24:06 AM] Julian Robichaux: then go to the title slide in your presentation, right-click it, and choose Page Design
[10:24:14 AM] Julian Robichaux: click the "More" button
[10:24:29 AM] Julian Robichaux: choose the template you just imported, and apply the title slide style
[10:25:31 AM] Julian Robichaux: then do the same thing with the second slide in the deck, use the Text Master or whatever it's called, and apply to all the slides other than the title slide
Given that I was looking at manually copying and pasting slides, I was VERY happy to see this work as advertised...
Oh, I did mention he offered a couple of solutions... If the first option either doesn't work or appeal to you, try the second option he offered...
[10:26:09 AM] Julian Robichaux: or, you can just do whatever the hell you want. That works too
:)
Seriously... thanks for sharing this, Julian!
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