Dimmed Layers

Michelle,

I'm a little confused as to what you are asking. Are you referring to the base layer being greyed out when working with new layers? 

Sorry,  I mean this effect on a layer, the character isn't clickable.  I'm just wondering why and how!

Hi Michelle,

The effect you are seeing is because you have selected one of the layers - in this case Choice 1. The character is on the slide rather than a layer so it is not selectable unless you return to the slide.

When you select a layer the slide will remain visible. albeit greyed out, unless you close the 'eye' on it by clicking the show/hide icon in the layers panel. This is because very often you would want to see how your layer objects appear in relation to your slide objects. Also the slide objects are shown in the timeline so you can choose to hide them when the layer in triggered.

Hope this helps

Helen

But why when I create a slide and a layer do i not get the same effect?  That is what is bugging me!

Michelle;

Is there any chance you are duplicating layers rather than making new layers?  If you duplicate you will have all of the elements of the base layer repeated on your new layer and they will show up non greyed out.

Tim

Thanks Tim

That was it!!!