Determine Slide Style in Slide View Window

[Craig]

In the PTE Slide View window, is it possible to determine at a glance if a style has been applied to one or more slides, or must one right-click into the Slide Style menu for each slide?  I have been mixing various styles in my projects and would like to identify specific slides to which styles have not been applied.

Thanks.

-Craig

[Lin Evans]

Hi Craig,

Other than selecting a slide then going to slide styles, there is no other way to determine whether a style has been applied - or if there is, I'm not aware of it.

Best regards,

Lin

[Barry Beckham]

This could be a suggestion for Igor, because I think you have a point Craig. I can normally tell by looking at the thumbnail, but not always and if you add a slide style to a blank slide it just shows blank.

A small S in the corner of the thumbnail would do it

[Lin Evans]

The only problem with trying to do this is that on many styles, after applying a style, the images in the slide list are no longer visible as independent entities. Example below:

Lin

Above before style applied:

Above after style applied:

[Barry Beckham]

Would it matter though?

I have a few slide styles I use each month where graphics are applied to a blank. All the shows in the slide list is a blank and there is no indication that an image will appear and its not a traditional blank. It then makes it difficult to know where a visible slide is in relation to a real blank slide. Having said that we don't have notification in the slide list that animation has been applied either and we all seem to get on OK with that.

Is it a big issue? No, would it be nice to have? Probably, but it would also have to show in the Time Line too. I personally rarely use the slide list and do everything in the time line

[Lin Evans]

I really don't see how it could be too useful when there isn't a real way to know which slides are actually being used in the style. For example, Jean Cyprien's rubik cube style uses seven images but creates 25 images - of course it's pretty easy in this case to realize that the slides are used in a style because most resemble each other in one way or another. There are so many nuances and variables that it might be easier to identify slides which are not being used in a style by placing a small letter such as "A" for available???

Best regards,

Lin

[davegee]

The answer to this little puzzle is in the hands of the Style Author.

Example:

Add a Blank slide.

In O&A add a Gradient Rectangle (Default Colour)

In Slide Options change the slide name from BLANK to STYLE BLUE GRAD

Create the Style

Add another Blank Slide

Apply the Style Blue Grad Style

In the Slide List it should now read: 2. STYLE BLUE GRAD

[Barry Beckham]

I don't think it matters what slides have been used in the style, just that a style has been applied. It also has to be remembered that the vast majority of users will have no interest whatsoever in rubic cubes or anything similar.  So, I am not sure a rubic cube is a good example to use to suggest the idea has little merit.

Presumably, Styles were introduced to speed up the workflow for those who need to repeats things. That's exactly why I use them and I say that being able to know if a slide has a style or is animated wouldn't be a bad thing.

Is it vital,  especially at this time? No,  but nice to think about for later? Yes

Anyway, as I have said before, there is only one person we need to convince. 

[davegee]

The answer to this little puzzle is in the hands of the Style Author.

Example:

Add a Blank slide.

In O&A add a Gradient Rectangle (Default Colour)

In Slide Options change the slide name from BLANK to STYLE BLUE GRAD

Create the Style

Add another Blank Slide

Apply the Style Blue Grad Style

In the Slide List it should now read: 2. STYLE BLUE GRAD

[Barry Beckham]

I wonder sometimes if you have gone so far with PTE, that you have difficulty looking back to a time when you didn't know 

A newer user of PTE will think of that option straight away, I'm sure 

[davegee]

http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/slide-styles/create_style#identifying_a_style

Note to Style Creators: Always identify your Style!

DG