Slide master layers

Hi all,

Reviving this one again, I'm in the same boat as Sharon here - as it appears many others are judging by the numerous different threads. 

I would like to think that the whole point of having a Slide Master with layer/trigger functionality is that it would work when applied to a slide within your content.

I'm making a feature recommendation to add this functionality or remove it from the slide master entirely. 

I've found the solution at the moment is to create a story template file, but again it is a long winded and painful process that has an end result of many unnecessary duplications of slidemater themes, resulting in unnecessarily large file sizes.