Do Master Slides come in all Captivate creations?

[clwork]

I'm trying to fully understand the principle behind Adobe Captive's Master Slides. I notice whenever I create a new Captivate slide it comes with Master Slides. Since I am going to want to design the e-learning presentations from scratch why would I want to use Master Slides? In addition, how do I create my own Master Slides?

Thanks

[Lilybiri]

Every project is based on a Theme. A theme has a theme color palette, object styles for all possible objects, master slides and a skin. Any part of those components can be customized as you want: you can apply another color palette, you can edit (default) object styles, the master slides and the skin. As for the master slides, a minimum of 6 master slides is required + the main master slide. The Blank master slide is necessary for capture slides and for importing PPT-slides. The other master slides are all linked with quizzes and have a lot of functionality built in: four of them are for the differfent types of questions and the last one is for the results slide. This minimum number is visible in the Theme Blank. All other themes coming with Captivate have also a title master slides and different content master slides.

Just some ideas. Even for a simple project I will always start with editing the theme, mostly starting from that Blank theme. Do not mess with the master slides I just mentioned, they are a necessity.

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Master slides are useful for populating objects across the entire project. For example, a consistent background or a company logo.

You are free to configure a blank slide that uses no Master slide and go from there. But you do have to jump through a few hoops to get there. I'd recommend creating one such slide and just duplicate it as needed if that's what you desire.

I like working this way myself.

Cheers... Rick

[Lilybiri]

Sorry Rick, but a blank slide is using the blank master slide, and any object that you add will used default styles, based on the Theme you are currently working with and with the color palette that is applied for that theme.  That means that adding object to a 'blank' slide will depend on the theme that is active at that moment. There is no way to get rid of the theme.

[Captiv8r]

I totally understand that, but the original question didn't ask about Themes. At least, as far as I can tell it didn't.

What I understood the question to be was how to create a project where you could add slides that had no master.

Then again, what do I know? I'm just an idjit that manages to squeeze an attempted answer in here and there in between the REAL experts.

Carry on... Rick

[Lilybiri]

Rick, every slide is based on a master slide;. there is no way to escape from them. What you call a 'blank slide' is a slide based on a blank master slide. Because those master slides are part of a theme, they don't stand alone, you never really can start from scratch. There is so much misunderstanding about 'themes' and 'templates'. Lot of people do lose much time because of that misunderstanding, first thing I always try to explain when they are asking for consultation. Master slides are not standing 'alone' as they used to be in older versions. I wanted to clarify that.