i checked under format/background - omit is not checked.
Is the object covered up by something else? Is it a title slide, and you
have a separate title master? Are you using 2007 in which case you could be
setting up "sub-masters" for each different layout so any different layout
could be different from the master for another layout? Do you have more than
one master, and this slide is associated with the other master?
--David
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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland