Selecting an element from a set of stacked obscured elements

[Guest]

One might consider this a bug or at least a lost feature.

Problem: How do I select an obscured object, one that is under other objects?

I'm tring to to a simple flip card type animation with all elements the
same size stacked on top of eachother. Once they are stacked there is no way
to select just one of them. Prior Powerpoint versions supported object
selection from the animation window that also selected the object in the
slide window.

PP 2002 does not seem to provide this functionality. The object selection
does not carry back to the slide window.

Anyone have any suggestions? Moving all the other elements, one at a time,
to get to the particular one is clumsy.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Select the object, then press tab/ shift+tab to go through the rest of the
objects. Does that help?
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[Glen Millar]

Hi,

Also, the Layer Manager in the Start Set from www.pptools.com has this
feature, but I think it is in the purchased version.

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[Ute Simon]

Problem: How do I select an obscured object, one that is under other
objects?

You can integrate a button for that on one of the toolbars. See
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00504.htm for a detailed How-to.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Shyam Pillai]

You can try the free Shape console tool on the following page:
http://skp.mvps.org/sconsole.htm.

It will create a miniature resizable window which shows which shapes have
been selected. When you tab thru the shapes in a stack it will update it's
preview.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

Also, the Layer Manager in the Start Set from www.pptools.com has this
feature, but I think it is in the purchased version.

It's included in the Starter Set Plus (ie, purchased) upgrade to the free
Starter Set, true, BUT it's also part of the Accessibility tools included in
PPT2HTML's free demo.

Say "Thank you, Glenna"

 

[Echo S]

In addition to all the other answers, I just created a Camtasia capture of
how Select Multiple works for the folks at Techsmith. I can send you the WMV
if you want -- it's a few MB, though! Drop me an email if you want it.

Otherwise, there are screenshots of Select Multiple here:
Selecting shapes that are covered by other shapes
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00504.htm

(Ute already gave you this link, though.)