Missing Master Slides

In one of my presentations all the masters have disappeared except "title and bullets". If I open a new presentation (all the masters are available) then copy any of the slides from the old presentation into the new one, all of the masters in the new presentation disappear except "title and bullets". How do I get the masters back? Thanks!

I have the same problem; every time I open a keynote presentation I have to re-insert .mov files, and every time I close the presentation they are gone (that is, the thumb is there but the movie is not, and despite checking "copy audio and movies into the document".
HELP.

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How do I set up a master slide in Keynote that provides placeholders for multiple images?

I came across an article in Mac|Life (Oct 2012 p90) titled "Create a Stylish Slideshow". The steps include creating a master slide that allows for you to add multiple photos. My master slide list for all themes allows for only one photo per slide. What am I missing and how can I set up a slide to which I can add multiple photos as they do in this article? Yes, I am using Keynote '09 v5.3.

Thanks for the info. Following the instructions which are covered in chap 12 of the User Manual, I found that I cannot use shapes as placeholders. The only success I experienced was if I used an actual photo image. With photos I could select Define as Media Placeholder, with Shapes, the only option was to Define as Text Placeholder. I will address this with a thorough review of chapter 12.
My initial problem was that I assumed that all themes in Keynote possessed the same set of Master slides. When I found this not to be the case I looked at each theme and identified 12 of the 44 provided different master slide options which provided placeholders for more than 1 photo (a few provided up to 6). For helpful information for others, here is a listing of those themes that provide master slides for more than 1 photo: Editorial, Kyoto, Brushed Canvas, Typeset, Craft, Stock Book, Blue Print, Vellum, Modern Portfolio, White Corners, Storyboard, Formal.
Thanks again. Your feedback got me on the right track to resolving my problem.

Master slide background color

When I select the master slide on the far left (the slightly bigger one), and I deselect "project background" and change the "stage:" to a different color, nothing happens. I am trying to use the solid color (paint can) and I put in my choice of Hex color (005983). When I try the same thing on the individual master slides to the right, I also get nothing. I even changed the Edit>Preferences>Defaults>Background color to the same color. And I get nothing.
I can (and have) put other things (logo, color bar) on the Master slide, and it propigates to the right on the other slides. What am I missing?

There are objects on the main master slide, they are not merged into the background. Yes, you can set the stage color for a normal slide as well:
What do you really want to achieve with selecting a blue color for the main master slide? It will not show up because you have objects on that slide that cover the stage color.
I know, documentation is not very helpful. I have been writing a lot about Captivate to provide some clues, but not about master slides. It is a lot of work to write out documentation and I'm offering everything for free. Same with answers here, where Rod and Rick are also spending many hours trying to provide answers.
Depending on the theme you started with, there can be a project background. You used the white theme. That background will always show up on the main master slide, even when you uncheck Project background. If you want not to see that Project background on a normal slide, but a full blue color, you have to unselect Use Master Slide Background, then unselect Project Background (is dimmed as long as you use Master Slide Background) and then you can use a stage color. Those settings I show in the screenshot.

Master slide for MCQ not taking

I modified the Master Slide for "MCQ, T/F, FIB, Sequence" but when I insert a Multiple Choice question, the slide does not include any of the modifications I made to the Master Slide. Am I missing something or is this a bug? Thanks for any insight into this.

Hi, thanks for replying so quickly. I only modified positioning, fonts, and colors. Did not delete anything. One strange thing I noticed is that the mobile slide is perfectly fine. The desktop and tablet views are the ones not accepting the changes to the Master. It's making the font and color changes but the positioning is not working correctly.
Here are screenshots of the Master and Filmstrip of the desktop view. Thanks for any insight.
MASTER SLIDE
FILMSTRIP (I highlighted the slide selector on the right to show that I'm using Sequence, not Sequence2)

Master Slide default

I have always been curious which master slide is chosen when I insert a new slide within a slide show. The slide within your show that you have highlighted determines which Master Slide has a check mark beside it, but that is not always the one which is chosen as the new one.
Am I missing something?

Ok, so I built a new master theme - same effect. The background colors and text formatting for the body of the table would not hold.
Then I placed a placeholder object into the master slide for the table, did all my formatting, applied it and voila - it carried over.
Seems that the palceholder did the trick for me.
Thanks for your support, brian
/Dirk

Master Slide Media Placeholder in Keynote '09

I would like to make a master slide that is 100% media placeholder for videos, but can't quite seem to find the correct way to do it.
If I insert a shape, it won't allow me make the placeholder a media one, and if I drag something into it anyway, it (of course) shrinks to fit around the graphic.
If I try to take a slide that already has a media placeholder on it and try to adjust so that it fills the whole slide, its proportions are constrained and I can't do it.
Is there a way to "unconstrain" the proportions of a media placeholder or a way to create a custom one? I seem to be missing something. Thanks.

Use the slide that already has a placeholder. Select the placeholder and go to the inspector, Metric Tab (sixth tab). There you have the option to Constrain proportions.

Smart Builds on master slides?

I'm trying to build a "portfolio" template where i can create case studies out of a master slide template. Some of these case studies have many images in them, and Smart Builds are the PERFECT tool for cycling through them on a single slide.
However, when i place a Smart Build on a master slide, its contents are not accessible in the slide show itself.
This seems like a really odd oversight to me, since one of the most useful ways to use Smart Builds is on master slides. Unless, of course, i'm missing something and it is actually possible to use Smart Builds in this way.

Just took a peek at Smart Builds and now I'm wondering how editable they are (ie are they based on .qtz files). Anyway, you can workaround masking on smart build objects by masking them first, copying, pasting into Pages, copying from there, then pasting back into the Drop Zone (click to highlight it, then paste). It should work directly in Keynote, but, hey, that's why we love Keynote!
I posted about the problem here.
http://www.keynoteuser.com/news/?p=240

Master Slides

Hi Guys,
I'm learning captivate and trying to get into the habit of using master slides.
However, I'm having a lot of problems using Placeholders. Regardless of what I do, the options on the Insert top menu are always grayed out, thus I can't select them.
I have the Master slide selected, so I don't know what I could be missing.
Thanks,
Matthew

Welcome to our community, Matthew
Placeholders are only available if you are working with a Project Template. What you do is to create a Project Template by clicking File > New Project > Project Template and configure the settings.
Then your placeholders will be available.
What you do is configure any number of slides that have certain items already configured and in place. Then where variable stuff would go, you use Placeholders. For example, perhaps you have a splash screen slide that has a Text Animation. Each project will present different verbiage as the animated text. So you insert a Text Animation Placeholder.
Perhaps you also always have a series of recorded steps following that. So you add another slide that has a Recording Slide Placeholder.
You then save the Template.
To use the Template, you click File > New Project > Project From Template. Then you double-click the placeholder objects to configure them or launch a recording process.
Hopefully that helps you make better sense of things... Rick
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Changing Font Colors on Master Slides

I really like Keynote compared to Powerpoint, but I am having a problem making one change to the master theme slides. I am able to change the look, font, etc. on the master slides of a theme, but I cannot figure out how to change the font color in the master slides. Which means that when I am using Portfolio, for instance, which I like, I have to change each slide's font color from gray to black, which is easier to read. I would rather do that on the master slides, but have been unsuccessful thus far.
Any help would be appreciated. it doesn't make sense that you could revise the masters in just about any way EXCEPT font color. So I must be missing something.

You change the font color on the master slide, the same way you change it on any other slide. Click view, then Show Master Slides, then select the slide and change it the way you do a regular slide.

Master slider/headphones problem in Audigy 2 ZS -HE

Hi there,
So I got an Audigy 2 ZS for my PC and I encounter the following problem:
I accidentaly unplugged the AD link 2 socket(the small one) from the back of my tower.
I put it back in but from that point on master slider stopped controlling volume.
Also I get no sound from the headphones output of the card anymore. (I never had a problem with that)
I got a pair of Yamaha speakers plugged directly into the pc and whereareas I could contol the sound output from the master slider of the card (it was apparently the master voulume anyway)now i can only control it though the knob of my speakers.
It seems to me that sound doesnt come to Soundblaster at all?
But its really weird,i cant see the reason. Notice that I didnt change any setting in options and the light which suggest Audigy works is on. Also in system diagnostic and device manager all seem ok. I reset and even switched on/off the pc but still nothing.
Maybe I m missing something obvious but I m really out of ideas,please help!
Thank you!

IF you unhooked/reconnected the connection with the computer on, power connected, or you had not properly grounded yourself you could have fried part of the card.
Here's what I would try...
) Re-install all creative drivers/software
2) Pull the card out, let it sit on a static free surface for a little while to ensure there are no charges standing on it interfering with its function, then plug her back in and try it out
3) Try the card with same speakers and all in a different rig, if the problem persists on another rig you probably fried some hardware (sounds like a software problem though, so I wouldn't worry to much about that)...

Unable to Paste Objects from Slides into Master Slides

I'm wondering if I'm missing a step or if anyone else has this problem:
I'm adding a new master slide to a theme and trying to customize it by copying objects and text boxes I've made on a regular slide onto a master slide. I can copy and paste on the regular slide, but the master slide will not accept any pasted objects, even though they were made in Keynote.
I can't find any way to unlock a whole slide, or other clue to making the new master slide accept the pasted objects.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Figured it out...
1. Open the "problematic" document.
2. Go to slide with the elements you want to copy (not your master slide)
3. Open your Inspector box > Slide tab > Appearance tab.
4. Uncheck ALL components - Title, Body, Slide Number, Object Placeholder.
5. Go back to the slide and "select all" (or individual elements), and select Edit > Copy.
6. Go to your Master Slide and paste (done)
Don't ask me why the software behaves like this, step 4 is the kicker! It doesn't make sense to me, but I'm sure someone with greater knowledge of the app can answer that question.

Insert filename in master slide

Can somebody tell me how I can insert the filename into the master slide (like you can insert filename in Numberq and Pages) so that when I change my filename it automatically changes also in the master slide ? Many thanks for your help.

This feature is not available "in thebox"
You may go to my iDisk:
<http://idisk.me.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>
and download:
foriWork:for_Pages:paste_thepath.zip
It contain two scripts.
One which pastes the pathname at the Insertion point.
One which insert the pathname at the end of the document.
I apologize but at this time I don't know the way to insert at the insertion point
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 25 août 2008 12:22:02)

How do I add a hover state to a smart shape button on the master slide? CP7

I want to use a button with a hover state on my master slide in CP7. I created a smart shape and checked the box 'use as button.' I then created 3 image files with the "x_up, x_down, x_over' extensions. When I select my smart shape and choose a custom pattern from the fill menu and select my 'x_up' image file, the smart shape does not recognize the hover state. Is there another way to achieve this?
Thanks!

Thanks I think I get it now after reading your post. Shape buttons can only shrink when they are pressed and nothing else. I was thinking a work round for me would be to use a regular button with the up, over, down state, put this regular button on the first slide and set the timing for 'display for rest of project.' However I don't see this option in the timing panel:
Is this option somewhere else?
Thx!

Master Slides - Need alternate solution.

I am an Apple Keynote/Aperture user who desires to create multi-image slides using a grid in which individual photos are deposited into cells like picture frames - sort of like a school yearbook layout. I have experimented with creating master slides using "Tables" and "Shapes" within Keynote, but find that they have limitations:
1. Using shapes in Master Slides, it is extremely difficult to get equal-sized borders between images using the "align" and "distribute" functions, particularly so if the cells are different sizes. As you are aware, these functions only operate on a horizontal or vertical basis. Is there a function that would automatically align all the cells on a slide in both dimensions?
2. With Tables, I cannot zoom or re-orient the image other than "fit" or "fill".
I would like to have a variety of various "grids" stored and available for use again and again. I am guessing that some software manufacturer makes a variety of template type grids - like the type graphic artists must use - that can be employed within the Apple system. If these do exist it would make my job a lot simpler. So my question is: On what computer user's forum should I raise this question?
Thanks for your time and I would appreciate any thoughts you might have.
Kent Loudon
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Old Photog wrote:
1. If I click "create a new master slide", Keynote duplicates the nearest master in the list. Is there a way to start out with a blank master?
No. As you say, creating a new master slide always just duplicates the currently selected master
2. I dragged some images from Finder into media
placeholders in a new slide. Later when I came back to Keynote I found the images had been replaced with a grey background, outline "X" and question mark. What happened?
Keynote doesn't treat images the way it treats audio and video i.e. images are always copied into the presentation, whereas with audio and video you have a choice to simply link to them. You wouldn't see the 'broken' image holders if you, say, dropped some images into a presentation and then moved/deleted the original images in the Finder. Keynote would be using the local copies it made of the images, and would have no dependency on the originals.
The only way I could duplicate this was to actually view the package contents of the presentation and manually delete the local copies of images that Keynote had stored. When I did that to a presentation and then opened it, I did indeed see the grey boxes with question marks that you describe.
Can you describe in more detail what you did between placing the images and then "coming back to Keynote" to find that the images had broken. Was it really just a case of closing the file, and then opening it again?
3. What is the proper way to select a master slide when creating a new slideshow slide?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. Are you talking about the best way to choose which master slide is applied to a new slide that you create in a presentation?
Similar to creating a new master slide, you don't really have much control over which master is used. Keynote will use the master of whichever slide you have selected when you add the new slide.
After that you can do one of 3 things to choose which master is applied to the slide:
1. Choose one from the Masters button on the toolbar
2. Drag a master from *Master Slide* area in the slide viewer onto the newly created slide in the Slides area
3. In the Slide tab of the inspector, under Appearance choose a master from the list of thumbnails
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