layers

[Harvey Waxman]

I often create slids that have layers which allow smooth transitions without a
ton of slides.

The problem is that, unless they are text boxes, they are invisible for editing
purposes. I can tab through them but there is no way to know which one I am
actually in. Is there any way to know what layer I am in, edit it (like adding
a box to a layer that is grouped) and then just leaving it where it is?

Some slides can get pretty complex.

PowerPoint OSX. Panther

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Harvey,

Steve's PPTools has a layer tool that I will try to fiddle with (it's
windows only at the moment). Will see if I can make it work on a Mac, maybe.

-Jim Gordon
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[Harvey Waxman]

Steve's PPTools has a layer tool that I will try to fiddle with (it's
windows only at the moment). Will see if I can make it work on a Mac, maybe.

That would be great. Saves making a bunch of slides when one would do.

thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Harvey,

Steve's PPTools has a layer tool that I will try to fiddle with (it's
windows only at the moment). Will see if I can make it work on a Mac, maybe.

Just had a few spare minutes so I thought I'd take a look at this.

Under Windows VBA, you can export forms and modules, then import them into
another project. It's a nicety when you're moving code in basic modules back
and forth but it REALLY shines when you have to move forms here and there.

Figured it'd be simple enough to get it onto the Mac and .... uh ... where's
the import form command? Nuts!

There went my spare minutes! I'll have another peek later.

 

[Harvey Waxman]

There went my spare minutes! I'll have another peek later.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

When I was in grade school the teachers predicted that by the time I was 35
that I would have more spare time than I would know what to do with. Energy
in the form of electricity would be so inexpensive that there would no
longer be a need to meter it.

I guess we know how it turned out. The predictions were not so accurate it
would seem.

There is no export or import forms in Mac's VBE. There is import a text
file, which can be used to populate a module.

Chance are importing a form would not work anyway. You can't put a picture
onto a userform and then expect the form to work cross-platform. A picture
added in windows causes a trappable error on the mac. A picture added on a
Mac causes an untrapable catastrophic failure on windows.

-Jim

 

[Harvey Waxman]

A picture
added in windows causes a trappable error on the mac. A picture added on a
Mac causes an untrapable catastrophic failure on windows.

It would be great if image and group layers could be accessed similarly to the
way text objects can be, i.e. appear in the edit menu when selected. If you
could copy them into a new document and paste them back where they came from
when done it would be nice. oh well.

Thanks anyway.