Layers and locks.
Please add the ability to show/hide layers, as on any other design program. Also the ability to lock/unlock an item to avoid when group selecting. Use InDesign, and learn.
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Bernard
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The ability to Lock Guides Objects & Images is 100% essential for making practical templates that don't break. This is pretty basic stuff. PLease implement this before you add any other (mastly pointless) bells and whistles...
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Maggie
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Add a lock object/item/layer capability please
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Ed
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Here, here! I create PPTs for others to use and a click in the wrong place can instantly mis-align callouts, as well as create other havoc.
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Cait
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Please, please, PLEASE!!!! The inability to lock images/objects makes powerpoint so FRUSTRATING to use. I use ppt to create videos explaining anatomy so I will have lots of images/textboxes/arrows on a single slide and I spend so much time hitting undo because it's literally impossible to grab the correct thing the first time!!! This would help save SO MUCH TIME.
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Jay
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It has been 4 years since this was posted ... please add this feature. Keynote has had it for years!
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Andrew
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We need this feature for work related items. Please implement ASAP. Shouldn't be hard. Tons of other programs have this functionality, and have had it for a long time.
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Gary
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Please god add a lock object position function.
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Helen Cameron
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Why Mac is so expensive but very backward when it comes to MS office basics!!
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Anonymous
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I cannot imagine why this is not an option. Please add this immediately!
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Mark
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Please, please do this. It is so frustrating to try and move one thing and something that should be locked in place moves instead.
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Graf
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ADD Layers, OR simply add a right click option to lock and unlock an object without having to put it on the master page.
How hard is this to do? I have hundreds of designers I work with daily who all prefer adobe over ppt because of this single feature.
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Anonymous
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Looking forward to this - please add in soon!
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Grant Furley
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Fully support this idea - well overdue. This is very frustrating when you are working on complex images. Why can't Powerpoint support multiple layers and allow you to lock them or at least only work on one at a time?
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Ryan Lockhart
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If locking things is not a thing in Powerpoint, this product is a FAIL. I am absolutely dumbfounded.
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Jacek
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Want one! the same with guide lines + lets operations on guidelines can be sensitive on Undo/Redo as normal objects are.
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Anonymous
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Why is this still not a thing!!!????
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Anonymous
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Clarifying (for Anon and any others) - currently, when creating a template, image placeholders in layouts aren't as usable as they should be.
It's very common to need an image sitting behind a non-rectangular shape. But, no matter what you do and how it looks as a layout, when someone using the template inserts that layout in their slide deck the image placeholder is in front of all elements except text boxes. This is not a problem with fixed images.
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EG
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you can show and hide layers using the selection pane (its like a layers window for ppt), and for the second issue, you can select a group of objects, then shift-select the item you didn't want to select in that group. actually even if they implemented your lock suggestion (which has other more practical uses), the technique i described above would still be less clicks in total.
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Anonymous
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PLEASE do this. This issue is quite literally ruining my life. Dramatic? Yep, but sadly true.
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