Disable specific slides in Outline

Aug 30, 2011

Is there a way to disable slides in the outline...basically just faded out so the user can see that they are there, but not able to click on them?

10 Replies
Jennifer Perena

My suggestion would be to 'hide' the slides in the Outline. The slides will still show up in the presentation, and the notes will also be available (if you have the notes tab enabled in the Player). This allows a shorter 'outline' to appear.

Here's how to do this:

1. In PowerPoint, select the Articulate menu

2. In the Articulate menu, select the Slide Properties button. This may take a few seconds to appear.

3. When the slide properties 'table' appears, you can do a couple of things here:

a. Right click the title of a slide in the Navigation Title column and select 'Hide in Navigation' - this will hide the slide title though the slide will still play and the notes associated to the slide (if any) will appear in the Notes pane

b. Single left click the title of the slide and edit it - you could change the title to be something like what is listed above (i.e. this slide is not available for selection) or something else. To save, click off.

cynthia pruitt

Hello,

I came to this  page looking for a way to also create a demo with a full menu where only a portion is live and the rest is grayed out. I already did a sample where I left in all slides and deleted content on the slides, and indicated the content is not available in a demo preview version.  Our 'boss' doesn't like that approach.  He specifically wants the entire menu to show but only allow users to click a select number of live slides. 

Please pass along a request for this capability in a future release.   

Thanks

p.s. the options presented to date do not adequately suffice or otherwise address our need.

Nicole Bell

Jennifer Perena said:

My suggestion would be to 'hide' the slides in the Outline. The slides will still show up in the presentation, and the notes will also be available (if you have the notes tab enabled in the Player). This allows a shorter 'outline' to appear.

Here's how to do this:

1. In PowerPoint, select the Articulate menu

2. In the Articulate menu, select the Slide Properties button. This may take a few seconds to appear.

3. When the slide properties 'table' appears, you can do a couple of things here:

a. Right click the title of a slide in the Navigation Title column and select 'Hide in Navigation' - this will hide the slide title though the slide will still play and the notes associated to the slide (if any) will appear in the Notes pane

b. Single left click the title of the slide and edit it - you could change the title to be something like what is listed above (i.e. this slide is not available for selection) or something else. To save, click off.


Hi,

I am changing the levels of the slides, but Articulate is not saving my levels. I keep changing everything from hidden to level one, but when I look in the preview, they are all still hidden. Can you help?

Peter Anderson

Hi Nicole, 

Try publishing your project and viewing the published output. When you preview a course, I believe you'll see the template with which you last published, rather than the one you're currently working with. So when you go to publish, just be sure to select the template you'd like to see in your final version and your changes should show up.

Let us know...

Thanks!

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