Placeholder only finds illustrated characters

Hi Leslie,

Can you clarify what you mean by "normal view"? Do you mean when you're viewing the slide with the character that's been added, or when you're previewing? 

I'd assume that if you're placing a character, or placeholder on your Master, you'll see it across all slides. Are you placing the new characters over this character? 

Hi Christine,

Thank you for replying.

I am trying to use a placeholder in the master slide layouts for the characters I will add when developing the training (this is what I mean by normal view). I want to make sure the placement and sizes are the same as the user moves from slide to slide. I am able to do this with the illustrated characters but the photographic characters do not appear as an option to select from. As I mentioned, I purchased the bundle of photographic characters and can add them manually but would like to use the placeholders to assure placement and sizing.

I am guessing that this is not an option but wanted to ask in case I downloaded the bundle incorrectly.

Thanks again for your reply,

Les-

Hi Leslie,

You're correct, at least as far as I can tell. Illustrated characters ARE one of the placeholder items listed in Master View on the Master Layout Group, Insert Placeholder drop-down. The others are content, text, picture, movie, flash, web object.

I wonder if there's a way you can accommodate the photographic characters? You can save them out as pictures and then use the picture placeholder, but that seems like a LOT of work.

Hoping someone else chimes in.

Hello Rebecca,

Thank you for responding.

I realize now that it may not be an option simply because there are so many variations in the posing of the photographic characters.

I will try the workaround you suggested, but yes, it will be time consuming :(

Thanks again,

Les-