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NEW IN STORYLINE 360: Slide Numbers
How do I get the slide numbers on the Master to be visible when I have a shape across my slide?
I inserted the slide numbers in the Slide Master. All works well except if I have a shape going across the slide. That shape covers up the slide numbers and there's no way for me to move them to the front to be visible since they are on the Master.
How about creating a layout slide below the master where your shape is inserted? You could then put the slide numbers in front of the shape? Pretty basic solution, I know, but would it work?
Michael
The problem is I have multiple slides where I put the shape so I could put it on the Master for those cases. The shape is really used for a title background so I could use your suggestion but sometimes I need to make the shape bigger/smaller so I need to be able to access it at slide level.
I suppose I could just design the slide to leave the corner reserved for the slide numbers but I like the contrast when it's layered on top of the colored shape.
I don't know how often and the extent to which you have to manipulate the size of this shape/box to accommodate your content of different slides, so this may or may not be doable. But what if you have multiple slide masters where you alter the size of that colored shape and then make sure to put the slide number on top of the shape. That way you can still have different sizes of the shape to choose from and the slide number will always be layered on top to give you the color contrast that you like.
That does sound like a good solution. That should work for most of the slides.
The issue is that some of the shapes need to be bigger due to bigger/more text or the shape color needs to be different. I suppose I can just create another colored shape to overlay on top of it but then I'll manually have to insert the slide numbers on top of it.
Sounds like there's not a ready made solution to cover all of the bases but these are some decent work-arounds for some of the issues.
