If you would go to View Normal (restore panes) on the left side of your presentation you will see two tabs. One says Outline and the other says Slides. I want to see the Outline tab. Then in my shell presentation I have one sheet for each person I expect to receive a presentation.

NowI have a list of names:

□Bob
□Joe
□DAn
□Bill
□ETC

I want the template I give them to not put in data in the Outline View. So when Bob sends me his input and I insert slide from file, my outline view looks like
□Bob
□ when nothing is printed here it is easier to pick out the names
□
□Joe
□DAn
□Bill
□ETC

I was able to force what I wanted by deleted the text boxes in the original slide layout and pasting in the one from the presentation I liked. When I tried to use a new text box, the indent buttons would not work.