"Thank you for your quick reply, Walt. The only way I can reconcile your answer with my experience is to change my definition of "master"..."

"I have a master slide that has a header (course title). The layout slide shows that header, as it should. I have created one layout for t..."

"These are good ideas. I'll run with them and see what happens. Thanks!"

"That would work. The complication is that my bullets reside inside a scrolling panel. If I put a layer on the slide, that layer doesn't s..."

"My slide layout is just experimental until I get this figured out. The slide I'm working with just has three bullet points on it. That's ..."

"There are plenty of discussions about animating bullet points, where successive bullet points become visible as the timeline progresses. ..."