I converted a slide to free form to try out using the interactions I set up as more of a quiz with feedback but after playing around with the quiz option, I decided it wasn't going to work with what I needed it to do. Is there a way to revert the slide back to normal? I tried clicking the undo button as far back as I could but it's still in free form and I'm hoping I don't have to re-build the slide.
The Remove Freeform option is greyed out in my slide view. I don't think I have a last good save. Help! I'm a total newbie. It took a couple of hours to build that single slide.
Hi S and welcome to E-Learning Heroes - Looks like Phil was able to pop in to try to assist here. Let us know if you need further assistance or were able to sort this out.
Create and new slide, and CTRL-V pastes the objects on a new slide.
Coincidentally, at your stage of development, slides that take that little time to create are generally simple enough that re-doing from scratch will probably result in better design, and increased learning opportunities, anyway. Remember, the more you put into a project, the more the learners are going to get out of it, so the goal is not ease of creation, but usefulness of the final result.
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Select Insert > Remove Freeform.
Thank you! I guess I didn't look closely enough at that button!
Haha! Me either! Thanks for the tip!
Hey Jenny and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :) Glad that you were able to find the assistance that you needed in this thread as well.
Save every 10 or 15 minutes. Then if you really screw up, Save AS with a new name. That protects the last good save.
The Remove Freeform option is greyed out in my slide view. I don't think I have a last good save. Help! I'm a total newbie. It took a couple of hours to build that single slide.
are you on a layer, you can only remove freeform on the base layer
Hi S and welcome to E-Learning Heroes - Looks like Phil was able to pop in to try to assist here. Let us know if you need further assistance or were able to sort this out.
CTRL-A selects everything on a slide
CTRL-V copies everything selected
Create and new slide, and CTRL-V pastes the objects on a new slide.
Coincidentally, at your stage of development, slides that take that little time to create are generally simple enough that re-doing from scratch will probably result in better design, and increased learning opportunities, anyway. Remember, the more you put into a project, the more the learners are going to get out of it, so the goal is not ease of creation, but usefulness of the final result.
Thanks Phil. Tried it and it worked. So simple.
Glad to hear that! Thanks for popping in with an update :)
This fix just saved me hours! Thank you so much. I cannot believe I never knew this existed.
Hey Leslie,
Love the name by the way ;)
Glad that this thread was able to help you out and thanks for chiming in to share!
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