The text disappears from a photo album slide after you update the slide in PowerPoint

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This article was previously published under Q278592

SYMPTOMS

You add text to a slide in a Photo Album by using a text box or a placeholder in Microsoft PowerPoint. Then, you update the Photo Album. When you do this, the slide no longer contains the text. A new slide is created containing the text.

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WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, use one of the following procedures, as appropriate for the version of PowerPoint that you are running.

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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

To add text for the first time, follow these steps:

On the Slides pane, right-click the slide, point to Layout, and then click Title Slide under Office Theme.
On the picture title placeholder, type the text that you want.

To add text to the existing text, put the pointer where you want to add the text. Then, type the text.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2002

To add text for the first time, follow these steps:

Select the picture.
Right-click the picture, click Add Text, and then type the text that you want.

To add text to the existing text, right-click the picture, click Edit Text, and then type the text that you want.

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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MORE INFORMATION

This problem can occur if you follow these steps:

You open a Photo Album that contains at least one picture. (To create a Photo Album, point to Picture on the Insert menu, and then click New Photo Album.)
You use a text box to add text to the slide that contains the picture or to one of the slide layouts in the Slide Layout task pane.
You click Photo Album on the Format menu, make any change, and then click Update.

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Steps to reproduce the problem

PowerPoint 2007

Start PowerPoint 2007 to open the default presentation.
On the Insert tab, click Photo Album in the Illustrations group, and then click New Photo Album.
On the Photo Album page, click File/Disk.
On the Insert New Pictures page, locate and select a picture, and then click Insert.
On the Photo Album page, click Create.
On the Slides pane, right-click the slide that has the picture to make the slide active.
Click Layout, and then click Title Slide.
On the picture title placeholder, type the text that you want.

Note You may have to resize or to move the picture so that you can see the title placeholder.
On the Insert tab, click Photo Album in the Illustrations group, and then click Edit Photo Album.
On the Edit Photo Album page, click File/Disk.
On the Insert New Pictures page, locate and select a picture, and then click Insert.
On the Edit Photo Album page, click Update.

A new slide is added by using the Title text layout that was selected in step 7.

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PowerPoint 2002

Start PowerPoint, and then open the default blank presentation.
On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click New Photo Album.
Click File/Disk, select a picture, and then click Insert.
Click Create.
Click the slide that has the picture to make the slide active.
On the Format menu, click Slide Layout. In the Slide Layout task pane, click the Title Slide slide layout.
Click the title placeholder, and then type Test.

Note You may have to resize or to move the picture so that you can see the title placeholder.
On the Format menu, click Photo Album.
Make any change, such as adding another picture, and then click Update.

Actual Result: The slide no longer contains text, and a new slide is created containing the text.

Expected Result: The slide should not be stripped of the text, and a new slide should not be created.

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