Powerpoint needs to have layers - similar to photoshop.

[Guest]

Powerpoint needs to have layers, like Photoshop does. Its very time
consuming to add and remove things other wise.

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[Chris Watts]

I disagree totally. Layers are for graphics packages - and I find them
unhelpful and intrusive; they would make working with presentations a pain.
Lets hope Microsoft do not introduce them into Powerpoint

Chris

Powerpoint needs to have layers, like Photoshop does. Its very time
consuming to add and remove things other wise.

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[Guest]

I also disagree. Working with layers isn't an easy concept to learn--it
really isn't for a typical user.

 

[Austin Myers]

PowerPoint does have them, they call them slides. <g>


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Echo S]

PPT 2007 has a Selection and Visibility task pane that may help with
whatever it is you're after. You can make items visible/invisible with the
click of a button, and you can move the items in the pane to change their
Z-order. For other new features in PPT 2007, see
http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Powerpoint needs to have layers, like Photoshop does. Its very time
consuming to add and remove things other wise.

In a sense, PPT's masters and slides function like layers, but it's not quite the same
thing.

And in another sense, each shape on a slide constitutes its own layer.
You can move shapes up and down in the layer stack (move forward/move back/send to
front/sendd to nback)

And I know ... still not the same thing.

There's also the Accessibility Assistant that's part of our free PPT2HTML demo, which shows
you a list of your shapes in "stacking" order and lets you do useful things with any shape,
like:

- Hide/Unhide
- Move up/Move down
- Temporarily nudge it so you can work with it, then automatically nudge it back into place
when you're done
- Rename
- Etc
- Etc
- Etc

Still not quite the same as real layers, but useful just the same.