Problem with Spotlight annotation not clearing

Jan 30, 2014

Hi,

I have annotated a slide including the following sequence:

  1. Spotlight an area
  2. Draw a rectangle, without clearing the spotlight ("Show All" selected)
  3. Clear All

In the Preview this works as expected. When I publish to WEB, the third step clears the rectangle, but the spotlight remains.

I created a test presentation with just the one slide, and tried the same annotations, and everything's fine. But I cannot get my first presentation to work, even if I copy the (working) slide from the test back into the original presentation.

Has anyone see this issue? Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mike

4 Replies
Leslie McKerchie

Hi Mike!

Since you are able to get the same functionality to work in a new presentation, perhaps there is some corruption in your original file that is causing issue.

  1. Open a blank presentation in PowerPoint.
  2. Save the presentation.
  3. Click the Home tab.
  4. Click the drop-down arrow beside New Slide and select Reuse Slides.
  5. Click the Browse button and select Browse File.
  6. Locate your original PowerPoint file and click the Open button.
  7. At the bottom of the Reuse Slides panel, select the Keep source formatting check box.
  8. Right click the first slide in the Reuse Slides panel and select Insert All Slides.
  9. Save the new presentation and republish.

Note:  Resources, such as audio and video, that you inserted via Articulate Presenter into the original presentation will need to be inserted again into the new presentation.  You may need to export the narration from your original presentation.  Then import it into the new presentation.

Timothy lee

Why you need to publish the created annotation to web broswer? In fact, you can directly use the web ppt annotation tool to add and draw annotation on powerpoint presentation slide on web broswer, which is usually implemented within a ppt web viewer. We know, with a ppt html viewer, we can easily view and process ppt slide on web page. Besides the annotation creation option, the web ppt annotation plutin still supports removing and customizing created annotation object.

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