Preserving and unpreserving masters

Jul 29, 2016

Please explain how to use the preserve feature of slide and feedback masters. I understand that preserve keeps a master and its layouts in the .story file in case you want to use it in the future.

After a master has been preserved, how do you unpreserve it so you can use it? There was nothing to click to unpreserve it -- right-clickngi on the master slide did not have an unpreserve option, the Preserve button didn't do anything when clicked on again. In that test, the preserved master remained after the Preserve button was clicked and in another test .story file, the master and all its layouts disappeared after the Preserve button was clicked.

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Walt Hamilton
Hero

over 7 years ago07/29/16 at 6:20 pm (UTC)

Playing with Masters is tricky, and sometimes works best if you close SL, re-open it and go directly to Masters without doing anything else.

To delete a preserved master, click on the pushpin to select it, wait a couple of seconds for it to become all selected, right click, and you should be able to click on the preserve option. If it is not being used, you will be offered the opportunity to delete it. The key is doing it at the beginning of a session, not the end, and waiting after you click it before right-clicking it.