Scrolling panel in slide master?

May 31, 2013

By Louisa Fricker

I need help getting scrolling panels to work from the slide master. Here's what I'm doing:

-- View > Slide Master

-- Click on a layout and go to Insert > Scrolling Panel

-- Set the panel to the correct size and location

-- Insert > Text Box

-- Set the text box to the correct size

-- Drag the text box into the scrolling panel

So far, so good. The scrolling panel works here on the slide master. However, when I Close Master View and use this slide layout for a new slide, the scrolling panel and the text box are not joined, and I have to redo one or both of them to get the text to scroll correctly.

Is there another way to do this? Is there a way to put a scrolling panel on the slide master and have it work on the slides themselves?

Thanks for any help!

12 Replies

Rebecca Fleisch Cordeiro

almost 11 years ago05/31/13 at 12:54 pm (UTC)

Hi Louisa,

Welcome! I hadn't tried that before, but did so just now and when I'm in preview mode the scrolling panel works fine. Of course if I need to edit them in any way, I need to go back to the master, but they're working as intended on the slide in Preview mode.

Perhaps you can upload your story here?

Louisa Fricker
Author

almost 11 years ago05/31/13 at 1:00 pm (UTC)

Hi Rebecca,

Here's my file - should be fairly obvious which master slide has the scrolling panel.

Thanks for your help! I've tried this a few times and can't seem to get it to work.

scrolling+panel+on+slide+master.story

Rebecca Fleisch Cordeiro

almost 11 years ago05/31/13 at 1:08 pm (UTC)

Ah, I see. I'm not sure you can achieve what you're after. But someone may jump in and explain how you can!

Your text box that's attached to the scrolling panel on the master is blank.

The text box (with text) that you've placed on the slide that uses that master layout isn't attached to the scrolling panel. It's just sitting on top on the slide. Do you see what I mean?

Louisa Fricker
Author

almost 11 years ago05/31/13 at 1:21 pm (UTC)

Hi Rebecca,

I see what you mean, but it's intentional. I want an empty, scrolling text box on the slide master so I can add text to the actual slides where I use that template. But like you say, that might not be possible. Thanks for looking at it!

Louisa

Michael Dempsey

almost 11 years ago05/31/13 at 1:39 pm (UTC)

Hi Louisa.

You may be able to achieve what you're after by placing a text variable in your slide master text box ("%myText%" or some such). Then on each slide you can add a trigger that changes that variable to whatever text you need.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Louisa Fricker
Author

almost 11 years ago05/31/13 at 3:27 pm (UTC)

Hi Michael - interesting suggestion! I tried it but it's not working properly yet. (It's shrinking my text to the point that it's unreadable, regardless of resize/autofit/shrink settings I use for the text box.) I'll keep playing with it though. I haven't used variables much and might need to get a better handle on those first. Thanks!

Louisa