object order on master slide

[Guest]

I've put several navigation buttons (next, home, exit, back) on a master slide. The show up and work great on each individual slide. However, on many (hundreds) of my slides, I've got a full-size photo which covers the navigation buttons, making them unusable. How do I make it so the navigation buttons from the master slide appear ON TOP of the photos on the individual slides? I've tried going to the master slide, selecting the buttons, and applying "send to front," but it doesn't help. Any ideas? I need it for a school project tomorrow.....Thanks.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

I don't think you can do what you want (someone else might have a better
answer). However, here is a quick work-around (it shouldn't take too
long even for hundreds of slides). Go to your slide master and select
your navigation buttons (click on the first one, shift-click on each of
the others) so they are all selected. Go to the Edit menu and choose
Cut. Now, get out of master view and starting with your first slide
paste, next slide, paste, next slide, paste... (with shortcut keys--
ctrl-V for paste and Page Down), you should be able to do at least 30
slides per minute. For 300 slides, that's only 10 minutes and a slightly
increased risk of carpal tunnel syndrome.

A macro could be written to do this automatically, but in the time it
would take you to figure that out (unless you are already a whiz with
macros), you could do it as I described above.

--David

David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Sonia]

Objects on the master will always be below objects that you add to the
slides. A work around would be to either size the images on the slides so
that they don't obscure the buttons, or add buttons to each of the
individual slides with the large images and place them where you want.
--
Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun CD software, templates, and tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com/

I've put several navigation buttons (next, home, exit, back) on a master

slide. The show up and work great on each individual slide. However, on many
(hundreds) of my slides, I've got a full-size photo which covers the
navigation buttons, making them unusable. How do I make it so the navigation
buttons from the master slide appear ON TOP of the photos on the individual
slides? I've tried going to the master slide, selecting the buttons, and
applying "send to front," but it doesn't help. Any ideas? I need it for a
school project tomorrow.....Thanks.

 

[Bill Foley]

You have a couple of choices:

1. If the image on your slide is the same layout of your slide (fits the
landscape slide size just right), you can remove the image, click "Format",
"Background", click the dropdown arrow and select "Fill Effects", click the
"Picture" TAB, browse and insert the image that way. Now the buttons will
appear.

2. If #1 is too much effort, open up the Slide Master, select your buttons
and click "CTRL-C" to copy them. Exit the Slide Master and go to the
culprit slides and press CTRL-V to paste them. They should stay on top of
your image.

Hope one of the above works for you!

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP
www.pttinc.com
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I've put several navigation buttons (next, home, exit, back) on a master

slide. The show up and work great on each individual slide. However, on many
(hundreds) of my slides, I've got a full-size photo which covers the
navigation buttons, making them unusable. How do I make it so the navigation
buttons from the master slide appear ON TOP of the photos on the individual
slides? I've tried going to the master slide, selecting the buttons, and
applying "send to front," but it doesn't help. Any ideas? I need it for a
school project tomorrow.....Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for all the tips. I used the "copy and paste" method on a few hundred slides. The person who wrote earlier that it wouldn't be too onerous was right. It works great. Maybe in the next version this will be a feature so I won't have to use this workaround. But until then, thank you for your timely suggestions.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Thanks for reporting back your success. Glad I could help.
--David

David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/