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Masterslides - no indication on where layouts are used
- 7 months ago
Hi Judy,
Thank you for putting in the time to provide some help on this, I do appreciate it. Thought I'd provide an update if you were curious, and hopefully this may help others who run into a similar issue:
Problem: An unwanted slide layout was being referenced by a slide. Yet all slides were using correct layouts.
Cause: The Question Draw slide was referencing the unwanted slide layout while all the questions in the bank were using the correct layouts. However, you cannot set a slide layout for this question draw slide like a normal slide and it does not display as a typical slide would.
Solution: Delete the question draw slide. Then delete the unwanted slide layout from the Slide Master. Reinserted the question draw slide.Further details: To identify which slide was using the layout I created a copy of my project file. I deleted a scene and checked the slide master to identify if the layout was still being used. I'd repeat this process until the layout reported "being used by no slides". Once the scene was identified, I'd undo the deletion of the scene and do the same process for the individual slides: Delete one, check the master to see if the layout reported "being used by no slides". This led me to the question draw slide.
Kind regards,
Sam
Thanks so much for this, Sam,
I had the exact situation you described, and couldn't see where the errant slide layout was being used. I changed the background colour of it to neon yellow, changed the text boxes to red, bolded them, and added a big green image to it, still nothing!
Once I followed your solution above, it was gone.
In the grand scheme of things, I know it's only minor, and of course, it didn't really matter that it was there, as almost no-one would ever see it, but I knew it was there and that's enough!
Thanks again,
Dermot.