Text boxes in the slide master...

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I want some text, the word "UNCLASSIFIED", for example, to appear on every
page, so I put a text box on the slide master. It works fine unless I then
import a graphic for a particular page, in which case the graphic covers up
the text box. I've tried selecting the graphic and "sending it to back".
That works for the page title and the bulleted text, but not my special text
box. I've also tried selecting the text box to "bring it to front", but it
can't even be selected. It's as though adding a text box to the slide master
makes it part of the slide background, and not a separate object. I also
tried puttling the text in the slide footer, but the footer is also covered
up by the graphic! How do I put a piece of text on each page that never
changes, and won't be covered by graphics on the page?

- Paul

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I want some text, the word "UNCLASSIFIED", for example, to appear on every
page, so I put a text box on the slide master. It works fine unless I then
import a graphic for a particular page, in which case the graphic covers up
the text box. I've tried selecting the graphic and "sending it to back".
That works for the page title and the bulleted text, but not my special text
box. I've also tried selecting the text box to "bring it to front", but it
can't even be selected. It's as though adding a text box to the slide master
makes it part of the slide background, and not a separate object.

For all intents and purposes, that's exactly what it does. Slide content
always sits atop slide master content.

One way around this would be a fairly simple macro.

You could create the text or whatever you like on the first slide, then with it
selected, run a macro that would copy and paste the shape onto each slide in
the presentation. That'd guarantee it's atop everything else.

Here's the code to do the magic copying.

Add an identical shape to every slide in the presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00780.htm