I have a small library of basic layouts provided by my client. When I click New Slide and choose one of the layouts and it inserts itself into the course, all of its objects become Background Graphics. I discovered this by selecting the slide (in slide view) and then clicking the Design tab and selecting the Hide Background Graphics check box. Everything on the slide disappears.
In Master Slide view, all is well. Text boxes are editable and photos/graphics are selectable.
In Master Slide view just highlight everything and use "Ctrl + x" to cut everything off of the master slide and then exit master slide view and then use "Ctrl + v" to paste them on to the slide of your choice.
As a matter of fact, that doesn't work - everything pastes as a picture - but even if it did, doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of having a master slide?
That's strange that it doesn't work. I have done it before when bringing in slides from Power Point and I cut and pasted many layers of objects out of the master slides and onto regular slides.
And I know what you mean by "it defeats the purpose" but if you are given layouts that are made in the master slide view of PP then that's how they are going to come into SL.
What kind of file did your client give you the small library of basic layouts in?
I'm not bringing slides in from PowerPoint. The layouts are right there in the Story Line library. Maybe I'm not explaining this right. When you hit New Slide, a popup opens where you can choose from various sources, including Common Layouts (is that right? I don't have it open at the moment). Common Layouts includes a bunch of client-generated layouts, some with boilerplate text in text boxes. I'm not interested in copying and pasting those layouts -- it seems to me that if I have to, something is not working correctly.
I understand better now what you're talking about. And when I choose to add a layout, via the new slide option, I get access to all of the individual parts of the interaction. And I'm not sure how to fix the problem that you're having, but I have gotten strange behavior from SL in the past and as it turned out the issues were related to a problem with permissions. This might be able to help you--> Permissions Fix for Windows
I may be misunderstanding as well, but when you add elements to your slide master, and then choose to make that master the layout used for a particular slide they do exist in the background so that anything else placed on the individual slide will sit on top of them and you won't be able to click or edit the elements from the individual slide. You can read more about how slide masters behave here.
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In Master Slide view just highlight everything and use "Ctrl + x" to cut everything off of the master slide and then exit master slide view and then use "Ctrl + v" to paste them on to the slide of your choice.
As a matter of fact, that doesn't work - everything pastes as a picture - but even if it did, doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of having a master slide?
That's strange that it doesn't work. I have done it before when bringing in slides from Power Point and I cut and pasted many layers of objects out of the master slides and onto regular slides.
And I know what you mean by "it defeats the purpose" but if you are given layouts that are made in the master slide view of PP then that's how they are going to come into SL.
What kind of file did your client give you the small library of basic layouts in?
I'm not bringing slides in from PowerPoint. The layouts are right there in the Story Line library. Maybe I'm not explaining this right. When you hit New Slide, a popup opens where you can choose from various sources, including Common Layouts (is that right? I don't have it open at the moment). Common Layouts includes a bunch of client-generated layouts, some with boilerplate text in text boxes. I'm not interested in copying and pasting those layouts -- it seems to me that if I have to, something is not working correctly.
Lerissa
Lerissa Patrick
Contract Instructional Designer
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I understand better now what you're talking about. And when I choose to add a layout, via the new slide option, I get access to all of the individual parts of the interaction. And I'm not sure how to fix the problem that you're having, but I have gotten strange behavior from SL in the past and as it turned out the issues were related to a problem with permissions. This might be able to help you--> Permissions Fix for Windows
Hi Lerissa,
I may be misunderstanding as well, but when you add elements to your slide master, and then choose to make that master the layout used for a particular slide they do exist in the background so that anything else placed on the individual slide will sit on top of them and you won't be able to click or edit the elements from the individual slide. You can read more about how slide masters behave here.
Oh. Thanks, Ashley!
Lerissa Patrick
Contract Instructional Designer
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No problem Lerissa - and glad that helped clarify.
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