I have 6 icons on my slide. All come from the 360 Content Library. If I select the first two and right click, I see Button Set as an option on the menu. However, if I select 3 or 4 or any other combination besides the first two, I do not see the Button Set option when I right click. Nothing is grouped. These are all individual objects.
Thanks for reaching out and sharing your file! In slide 2.6, each icon is actually a group of objects. You can tell by the drop-down next to the icon.
Groups cannot be part of a button set as they cannot have states. Can you explain why you'd like to create a set from these, though? This will help the community provide additional guidance on what you're trying to accomplish!
If you want to quickly convert the icons to images so you can set them in a button set, right-click save as image and then a folder opens and you drag the image back onto the slide.
If you do that, I'd scale the icons up so when you save them the resolution is a little higher and I'd also save as .png
Ren - thank you for pointing out that the icons I am using are not actually a single object. I did not realize that. Now I know why I cannot add them to a button set.
I wanted to use the icons as buttons to open layers. However, now that I know icons are not single objects. I will rethink my original design.
Tom - thanks for the idea to save a collection of objects as an image. Now that I know that I may be able to convert the icons I want to use into single images.
I wanted buttons so that I can take advantage of the different states like selected, visited, etc. I can now see that some of the icons I selected are single images while some of the others are groups. I had not noticed that before.
Thank you both so very much for your help! I can figure out how to accomplish what I want to create now.
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Hi Edith,
Thanks for reaching out and sharing your file! In slide 2.6, each icon is actually a group of objects. You can tell by the drop-down next to the icon.
Groups cannot be part of a button set as they cannot have states. Can you explain why you'd like to create a set from these, though? This will help the community provide additional guidance on what you're trying to accomplish!
If you want to quickly convert the icons to images so you can set them in a button set, right-click save as image and then a folder opens and you drag the image back onto the slide.
If you do that, I'd scale the icons up so when you save them the resolution is a little higher and I'd also save as .png
Ren - thank you for pointing out that the icons I am using are not actually a single object. I did not realize that. Now I know why I cannot add them to a button set.
I wanted to use the icons as buttons to open layers. However, now that I know icons are not single objects. I will rethink my original design.
Tom - thanks for the idea to save a collection of objects as an image. Now that I know that I may be able to convert the icons I want to use into single images.
I wanted buttons so that I can take advantage of the different states like selected, visited, etc. I can now see that some of the icons I selected are single images while some of the others are groups. I had not noticed that before.
Thank you both so very much for your help! I can figure out how to accomplish what I want to create now.