Not to my knowledge. You could copy ALL the objects on the layer and paste them into the new layer on the other slide. Ok, so the timeline elements might port across well but the triggers normally won't (depending on what they're triggering) - so they'll need tidying up.
The way I normally handle this is by copying the whole slide and modifying or deleting what I don't need.
I also tend to attach my slide level triggers to an off-stage shape. Makes it a little easier if I only need one layer to transfer and prefer to just copy the contents.
Copy layer is a great feature suggestion. Intuitively, I would expect (and did, the first time) that I should be able to copy a whole layer from one slide to another.
The way I normally handle this is by copying the whole slide and modifying or deleting what I don't need.
Yep, this is a pretty good method too. Sometimes it depends how much action you've got happening on the slides in question, i.e. it's often quicker to delete stuff you don't need rather than add stuff you do.
The way I normally handle this is by copying the whole slide and modifying or deleting what I don't need.
I also tend to attach my slide level triggers to an off-stage shape. Makes it a little easier if I only need one layer to transfer and prefer to just copy the contents.
I do both of these. Thinking like Steve! Yeah, me!
And I put in a feature request for copy layer some time ago. Hope others do as well.
Our situation was, that we had to simulate a rather complex lightbox via several layers. Then we had to copy those layers to all slides in the course. We thought of copying the slide with the "lightbox" layers and modifying the copy, but the original slides had just as many layers.
But we found a surprising solution: We created the "ligtbox" layers in the slide master - anticipating that it wouldn't work - but it did
Yep! That's a great solution. The layer behavior (newest layer jumps to top) makes it easy to do modal windows as well as interface overlays. Triggering the layer show is a bit of a challenge. Here's a trick for that:
Create a numeric variable. Something like showWindow.
On your master slide, create a trigger to show your window layer when the variable showWindow changes.
Now whenever you want to show the window, all you need to do is fire a trigger to add 1 to this value from your base slide. Control from anywhere
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Not to my knowledge. You could copy ALL the objects on the layer and paste them into the new layer on the other slide. Ok, so the timeline elements might port across well but the triggers normally won't (depending on what they're triggering) - so they'll need tidying up.
The way I normally handle this is by copying the whole slide and modifying or deleting what I don't need.
I also tend to attach my slide level triggers to an off-stage shape. Makes it a little easier if I only need one layer to transfer and prefer to just copy the contents.
Copy layer is a great feature suggestion. Intuitively, I would expect (and did, the first time) that I should be able to copy a whole layer from one slide to another.
Yep, this is a pretty good method too. Sometimes it depends how much action you've got happening on the slides in question, i.e. it's often quicker to delete stuff you don't need rather than add stuff you do.
I do both of these. Thinking like Steve! Yeah, me!
And I put in a feature request for copy layer some time ago. Hope others do as well.
Thank you for all the answers!
Our situation was, that we had to simulate a rather complex lightbox via several layers. Then we had to copy those layers to all slides in the course. We thought of copying the slide with the "lightbox" layers and modifying the copy, but the original slides had just as many layers.
But we found a surprising solution: We created the "ligtbox" layers in the slide master - anticipating that it wouldn't work - but it did
Thanks
Jørgen
Yep! That's a great solution. The layer behavior (newest layer jumps to top) makes it easy to do modal windows as well as interface overlays. Triggering the layer show is a bit of a challenge. Here's a trick for that:
Great stuff, Steve!
We triggered the layer via a click on an image in the master slide, so we didn't know, we had a problem!
Have I told you I love you yet today Steve? Awesome.
Yes, this is old. But anyway: Thanks a million Steve! This idea saves me a lot of time.
Welcome to Heroes, Nina! Glad to hear you found this thread helpful :)
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