PowerPoint Template with Multiple Master Pages

I am creating a template with multiple master pages. Instead of "click to add title" I would like to put in the title for each master page so that all the pages under that master have a fixed title. Can this be done?

On the Title Master Page I would also like to change the subtitle text from "Click to add subtitle" to "Click to add class e.g. Primary 2". Is this also possible?

I understand this can be done in PP2007 and PP2010 but I am using 2003 and am reluctant to upgrade since most of the users are still using PowerPoint 2003.

Since PowerPoint 2002, you have the ability to have as many Slide Masters as you need, so you can create presentations with slides that have different looks. and features.

To create or add a new slide master in your PowerPoint presentation.

Choose: View > Master > Slide Master command to switch to Slide Master View. Or click the Insert New Slide Master button.

A new Slide Master appears.

With the Slide Master Open you can now make any changes that you wish for example if instead of Click here to add title you would rather have a static text. Simply delete the Text object placeholder.

Now select the Text box tool and draw a text box on the slide where you want your slide title to be. Type in the text that you want all slides beneath this slide master to have.

Format the text box, (color set to none, line set to 0, etc) to remove the white background and bounding box.

Format the text in the text box the way you wish. Now close the Slide Master view.

Each time you now insert a new slide using this Slide Master it will have the text in the postion, style, and format that you assigned to it in the Slide Master.

As far as I know, you cannot change the Click here to add subtitle text in any version of PowerPoint other than PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010 but maybe I am misinformed and if so some of our community members can correct me?

Thank you, but I decided to upgrade from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 but still could not find how to change the text. However, that is the least of my worries.

I have created a template for a school using multiple masters in PP2007. I tested this in PP2003 on my system and even tested it on a computer with only PP2003 and was able to use the template without any problem. I took it to the school and tried it there in PP2003 and got an error message that the template used multiple masters and the presentation would be created with the title page master.

I checked to see if the new features of PP2003 had been disabled, they had not. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Did you save your PowerPoint presentation using the Save AS... option and save as an older format ie. PowerPoint 2003? Or did you simply choose Save (CTRL+S) from the PowerPoint main menu to save your presentation?