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Swap Out Background Image in Slide Masters and Layouts
If I'm dealing with a couple hundred slides, I'm afraid that as clever a solution as it is (and I love that it really is a truly clever solution to the problem), it may not end up saving any time or effort in the end. I'll run it by the team, but I'm picturing having a dedicated file or spreadsheet just to images, triggers, and states. The client will be the ones making edits to the file in the future, so I don't want to throw something unexpected at them.
With that many slides, "clever" would definitely take more time.
Here's what I'd do:
- Set up a Master Layout with all the necessary elements except for the background image.
- Insert one slide with that layout.
- Add a background image to that slide, and move it behind the other elements.
- Duplicate that slide to create as many as needed.
- Use the "Replace picture" function to change the background images as desired.
That still involves some tedious tasks, but it's a lot less programming to worry about. And it would be much easier for the client to understand and maintain in the future.
Otherwise, just convince the client to use only a few different backgrounds, so it wouldn't be too much trouble to have separate layouts for each. ;-)
