Favorite PowerPoint Features?

Hey jeanette,

Yes this was the one and it shed some light on my issue https://player.vimeo.com/video/204870625

The issue I ran into on PPT 2010 (64 bit) was that I could create a large number of master slides but I could only see a limited number of them at any point in time. The issue arose when I was trying to apply layouts and apply slide masters. Fir some reason not all of my slide masters were appearing. It would only show me approx. 16 slide masters and It really made applying layouts difficult.

For me dropping back to Power Point has been a huge down grade from Flash in the organizational sense. In Flash you have scenes, time-lines, layers and you can then grouping of layers and lock layers and for me the trick has been to think of ways to do this same type of thing in Power Point. When I watched your screenr, I got the idea of using Master Slides kind of like a main cateory and then using the slide layouts to hold my other screens.

Based on my new found knowledge I was able to see how to organize my project and my new tests proved very promising. Here is what I mean. As I mentioned before I'm creating a software tutorial that has basically a main navigation menu with main windows and within each of these main windows there are dependent sub windows.

For example

[Account Menu]  (Slide Master)

   + [Collector Window] (Layout1)

        + [Employer window]  (Layout2)

[Payment Menu] (Slide Master)

  + [ Payment Window] (Layout1)

         + [Other Payer Window] (Layout2)

What I tried to originally accomplish was to make a master slide for the Collector and the Employer windows which was a flaw in my logic. What I needed to do was use the Main navigation (parent directory) menu as the Master Slide and the place all of the sub windows such as the Collector Window (the child) and Employer Windows(the grandchild)  in slide layouts. 

The only thing I wish MS would come up with something like Flash Symbols that would allow you to update the base image which in turn updates all instances of the symbol in your project. This is helpful especially when images change. Anyway Jeanette your screenr was a huge help and maybe what I've learned and what I'm sharing will help someone else out.