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How to find master slides being used?
In the slide master if you mouse over any of the slides a pop-up shows how many slides are using the slide layout. How do you find out which slides are using a specific layout? I have some duplicate slides in my slide master and some of them are only used once by a slide. I want to find that one slide and change the layout so I can get rid of the duplicate in the slide layout.
Hello everyone!
Happy to share that we've just released a new update for Storyline 360!
In Update 118, we've included essential fixes and new features. We've released an enhancement for:
- Identify where slide masters, feedback masters, and layouts are used across your project to make design updates faster.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You’ll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help.
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Hi Alan,
No way to currently find that out. It would make a great feature request though.
Always Happy to Help,
Adrian
I see that this was asked back in 2012. Has this feature been added yet? I would love to be able to track down exactly which slides are using a specific master.
Cheers!
Sarah
Hi there Sarah,
It may not be the quickest method, but you can find the Master for specific slides. First, select the slide (in either Slide View or Story View), then right-click on the slide. Select "Layout". A new menu will open for the layout options. The Master that's currently being used will be listed here and the slide being used from that Master will be highlighted.
It should look something like this:
I definitely agree that a little more specific information from the Master itself would definitely be a great option. Until then, hopefully this information will help!
If you haven't already, you may want to share a feature request with us as well.
Thanks!
Hi Sarah,
Our training courses are very modular. Each module is developed as if it were a separate training course. When we create a new full course we import all the individual parts into an SL-file. With this, all master-files are imported as well Some functionality is to be kept on 1 master slide. So we re-apply the master on all our imported slides.
The slidemaster we don't need we delete. Sometimes we forget to re-apply the master on a slide and can therefore not delete the master. To identify that slide, we change the background colour of the master slide we want to delete to, in our case red. When we then look at our course in course view, the slide stands out...
Cheers
geert
There's no such thing as "an old thread"- great tips are timeless and here's an example. Thanks Geert.
This is a brilliant workaround, Geert!
Very good, I like that
Geert's trick is clever, simple and awesome! I love a quick and easy work-around for a missing function like this. Thanks very much!
Love when older threads are continuing to assist users and thank you for popping in to share Kendra.
Geert, thanks for the clever trick! It was really quick and easy and saved me so much time.
Glad to hear your are all set, Amanda! Thanks for stopping into let us know. :)
I just used the trick on the feedback master to change the layout on slide layers, and it was very useful seeing the bright color.
Thank you Geert, this is brilliant. If only we could use the same method for duplicate Feedback Masters.
