Reverting buttons to shapes

The solution may be staring me in the face, but I am hoping for a faster way to revert buttons to shapes, than deleting the buttons and creating shapes.

Why would this be needed in the first place? Well, I was reconstructing a sample story to see what else I needed to learn. Low and behold...

So the sample has several slides with a top bar of buttons, so I copied them over to each slide. Later in the story, there is a slide where the same tabs are shown, but with only one of each in a different color indicating the content of the layers are within that single tab, which was selected on a previous slide. I showed the unselected buttons in a normal state change in grey so it appears you can't select them, however, the cursor changes in hover mode, even when there is not a hover state to these buttons. 

I know I can make this work, by deleting the copies and creating shapes, but is there a more elegant solution that doesn't require creating new shapes or all my attempted workarounds?