Selected State Problem

Here is the file. Please click preview then click "start here" and then "exercise 1" and back and forth. Once you click back and forth it does not show the correct state.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi Adam,

The problem is that you are working with a separate set of buttons on each slide.  So when you select the Exercise1 button on the start slide, it marks the Exercise1 button as selected, but you also move to a new slide and a different set of buttons.  So when you click the Start Here button on this new slide, it goes back to the start slide where the Exercise1 button is still selected.

You might try taking advantage of the maser slide layouts.  You could place everything in the background (including all the buttons) on a layout so you don't have to recreate it on every slide.  I'm not sure it works with a sliding frame though.

Thanks Josh.  This seems like it could be a viable solution.  I don't necessarily need the sliding frame so I will try it with the master slide.  

Cheers,

Adam

Scratch that, I was messing around with it, and the result is the same.  It still treats the buttons as a new set per slide.

Since you are using a new slide for each button, you could just remove all the selected states and keep only the normal state for each button.  Then just recreate the button with the red highlight on each individual slide.  See the attached example (I only did this with the first 4 slides).  I took advantage of the master slide so I don't have to repeat the buttons on each slide.  This will help keep the file size smaller and make for quicker publishing.

Hi Adam! Looks like Josh is taking care of you here. Just let us know how his suggestion works for you and if you need anything further.