Master Slide

Can you please tell me how to remove one image from the master slide for one indivudal slide?

Depends on which version of PowerPoint you are using.

If you are using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003, you can set up a second master
that doesn't include the element(s) you don't want.

If you are using one of the earlier versions, you will have to fake the
effect. To fake it, you need to select and copy all the elements from the
master slide except the one you don't want. Now, go to your slide, right
click and bring up the background dialog. Check ""Exclude Background
Objects". When you click ok, you will have a blank slide. Onto that slide,
paste the elements you copied from the master slide.

Hope this helps!

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"Katherine Wilson" wrote in message
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Can you please tell me how to remove one image from the master slide for
one indivudal slide?

Depending on how complicated things are, you might be able to simply
cover up the unwanted element with a rectangle that is the same color as
your background. This won't work if the element is animated, but I use
this all the time. For example, if I have a navigation bar with buttons
for back, next, and home, I can slap a rectangle over the next button on
the last slide.
--David

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"Kathy J" wrote in
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Depends on which version of PowerPoint you are using.

If you are using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003, you can set up a second
master that doesn't include the element(s) you don't want.

If you are using one of the earlier versions, you will have to fake
the effect. To fake it, you need to select and copy all the elements
from the master slide except the one you don't want. Now, go to your
slide, right click and bring up the background dialog. Check ""Exclude
Background Objects". When you click ok, you will have a blank slide.
Onto that slide, paste the elements you copied from the master slide.

Hope this helps!

In article 6, David M.
Marcovitz wrote:
Depending on how complicated things are, you might be able to simply
cover up the unwanted element with a rectangle that is the same color as
your background. This won't work if the element is animated, but I use
this all the time. For example, if I have a navigation bar with buttons
for back, next, and home, I can slap a rectangle over the next button on
the last slide.

And a weird little addition to that trick ... Echo told me about this one, I
think:

Rightclick or doubleclick the rectangle to bring up the formatting dialog box.
Can't do this from the popup fill gadget at the bottom of the screen for some
odd reason.

Click the down-arrow next to fill color and at the very bottom of the list of
possibilities, there's "Background". Click that.

The rectangle will now take on whatever color the background gets.
No big whoop, right?

But it'll inherit the fill from whatever portion of the b/g it's sitting over
... meaning that you can now use it to hide things even on gradient, textured
or other non-flat-color backgrounds. Whoop. BIG whoop. ;-)


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That one's today's gem!! Wowzer!!!

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
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In article 6, David M.
Marcovitz wrote:
Depending on how complicated things are, you might be able to simply
cover up the unwanted element with a rectangle that is the same color as
your background. This won't work if the element is animated, but I use
this all the time. For example, if I have a navigation bar with buttons
for back, next, and home, I can slap a rectangle over the next button on
the last slide.

And a weird little addition to that trick ... Echo told me about this one,
I
think:

Rightclick or doubleclick the rectangle to bring up the formatting dialog
box.
Can't do this from the popup fill gadget at the bottom of the screen for
some
odd reason.

Click the down-arrow next to fill color and at the very bottom of the list
of
possibilities, there's "Background". Click that.

The rectangle will now take on whatever color the background gets.
No big whoop, right?

But it'll inherit the fill from whatever portion of the b/g it's sitting
over
.. meaning that you can now use it to hide things even on gradient,
textured
or other non-flat-color backgrounds. Whoop. BIG whoop. ;-)


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In article , Sonia wrote:
That one's today's gem!! Wowzer!!!

Pity it doesn't work for picture b/g fills, but for grads and textures, it's a
lifesaver, eh?

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Oh, but it does work for picture backgrounds, whether the picture is
inserted in the background of the Slide Master or if it is applied only to a
single slide via Format Background!! Have you tried it?

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
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In article , Sonia wrote:
That one's today's gem!! Wowzer!!!

Pity it doesn't work for picture b/g fills, but for grads and textures,
it's a
lifesaver, eh?

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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Try it. And then move the object. It appears to be transparent. But it
isn't. Move it to the left halfway off the slide and the part that hangs
off is filled with the right hand side of the background. Move it halfway
off the top of the slide and the overhanging part is filled from the bottom
of the background image. Copy and paste it to a slide with a different
background and it contains *that* background. Great fun. Can't think of
what to do with it, but it's fun.

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
...
In article , Sonia wrote:
That one's today's gem!! Wowzer!!!

Pity it doesn't work for picture b/g fills, but for grads and textures,
it's a
lifesaver, eh?

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================

Yeah, it is fun.

Oh, but it does work for picture backgrounds, whether the picture is
inserted in the background of the Slide Master or if it is applied only to
a
single slide via Format Background!! Have you tried it?

It depends on which version of PPT you're using, and I'm pretty sure Steve
and I were poking at 2000 when I told him about this.

Hang on a sec...

PPT 2000, format/background/fill effects/picture on individual slide --
background-filled object is a miniature of the image on the slide
PPT 2000, format/background/fill effects/picture on the slide master --
background-filled object is a miniature of the image on the slide

Yeah. It didn't work with images in PPT 2000 -- only gradient fills. Maybe
also textures or patterns, but I don't remember for sure.

PPT 2002/2003, format/background/fill effects/picture on individual slide --
background-filled object seems transparent on the slide
PPT 2002/2003, format/background/fill effects/picture on the slide master --
background-filled object is a crappy brown/orange!

So MS added image functionality to this feature as of PPT 2002. Not sure why
I'm seeing crappy brown and orange when using an image inserted on the slide
master, but it's probably something to do with my video driver. I know that
in the Format Object dialog box, the fill shows as the background image the
way it should.

Try it. And then move the object. It appears to be transparent. But it
isn't. Move it to the left halfway off the slide and the part that hangs
off is filled with the right hand side of the background. Move it halfway
off the top of the slide and the overhanging part is filled from the
bottom
of the background image.

I think this extra fill is probably a video driver/display issue, because
that doesn't happen here. I see transparent areas on the parts of my object
that hang off the slide. Always have, as far as I can remember.

Copy and paste it to a slide with a different
background and it contains *that* background.

Yeah, that does work.

Great fun. Can't think of
what to do with it, but it's fun.

Well, for one, it's handy for covering up text (for instance, an extraneous
axis label on a graph) when you have a gradient or picture background.

Echo

Your video driver must need updating. The object isn't transparent. I see
the background image, even when I move it off the slide. If it were
transparent it wouldn't cover anything. I tested on three different
systems.

"Echo S" wrote in message
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Yeah, it is fun.

Oh, but it does work for picture backgrounds, whether the picture is
inserted in the background of the Slide Master or if it is applied only
to
a
single slide via Format Background!! Have you tried it?

It depends on which version of PPT you're using, and I'm pretty sure Steve
and I were poking at 2000 when I told him about this.

Hang on a sec...

PPT 2000, format/background/fill effects/picture on individual slide --
background-filled object is a miniature of the image on the slide
PPT 2000, format/background/fill effects/picture on the slide master --
background-filled object is a miniature of the image on the slide

Yeah. It didn't work with images in PPT 2000 -- only gradient fills. Maybe
also textures or patterns, but I don't remember for sure.

PPT 2002/2003, format/background/fill effects/picture on individual
slide --
background-filled object seems transparent on the slide
PPT 2002/2003, format/background/fill effects/picture on the slide
master --
background-filled object is a crappy brown/orange!

So MS added image functionality to this feature as of PPT 2002. Not sure
why
I'm seeing crappy brown and orange when using an image inserted on the
slide
master, but it's probably something to do with my video driver. I know
that
in the Format Object dialog box, the fill shows as the background image
the
way it should.

Try it. And then move the object. It appears to be transparent. But it
isn't. Move it to the left halfway off the slide and the part that
hangs
off is filled with the right hand side of the background. Move it
halfway
off the top of the slide and the overhanging part is filled from the
bottom
of the background image.

I think this extra fill is probably a video driver/display issue, because
that doesn't happen here. I see transparent areas on the parts of my
object
that hang off the slide. Always have, as far as I can remember.

Copy and paste it to a slide with a different
background and it contains *that* background.

Yeah, that does work.

Great fun. Can't think of
what to do with it, but it's fun.

Well, for one, it's handy for covering up text (for instance, an
extraneous
axis label on a graph) when you have a gradient or picture background.

Echo