Objects in Master slides staying infront in PPT

Think of the slide master as the canvas that you are painting on, or the letterhead that you are typing document on. In other words, that is all background materials. Content added to the slide will cover any content in the slide master if you place something over it. That is the way it is designed.

the black parts, & the white part are all part of the overall image to be placed - the image is full screen(slide) sized when provided - paste will place it perfectly - then send to back with a right click context menu?

What I don't understand then, is if you have this image as part of the title, then why are you covering it up? Do you want this on all slides, or just on slides with title and content, or all slides that contain titles?

If you are going to put another photo on the slide, I would suggest using the photo as the background of the slide. But then, as you say, it isn't just you using it. But these product photos are filling the entire slide? I'll look at it a little closer. I'm just concerned it might be a little different as my experience is with the Window version. I teach this in the community college, but do not have experience with the Mac version. I'll try and get you some different information tomorrow or Monday. It is getting late here and I will be out of town most of tomorrow. I have some ideas, but need to test it.

My 2 cents... Pro presentations for hire were my business for almost 20 years.

I settled on MacroMedia Director (now Adobe) as my tool of choice because it has INFINITE versatility - it makes custom software every time

Do us a favor while we are having our wonderful weekend... Post your ActionFlow to achieve exactly what you can accomplish to get the job done - we then might suggest that you TEACH how you get 'er done to your sales force (I probably won't) 🙂

*It was always my consultation to my clients that they Do NOT want their employees Off-Script in any way... i.e., you do NOT want them editing anything and to be parrots of what has been proclaimed by decision makers as "the Perfect Pitch"

one other thing just occurred to me...

If you are "in charge" of the images that need "pasting precisely" - or can set up a "standard" for them - you could make them All The Same Size in some fashion by providing an easy to paste in the right spot image, no matter its shape - it registers top-left and is automatically positioned?

*forgive me if I wasn't clear, it is getting past my bedtime.

OK. So it is in "presentation mode" when you took the shot.

I'm stickin' with my workaround... develop a full screen standard size for all images to be placed by whomever - you, your successor when you retire on your big bonus for being a hero - or, if you must, give the keys to the poor house to the sales force. 😉

as "PPT" is a Microsoft product, your best bet is to post your question in the PowerPoint forum there > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/powerpoint?tab=Threads

Objects on the slide master, will always be placed behind any objects on a slide.

If you want an object on the top layer, place it on a slide, not a master.