Re: [applekeynote] Editing members of a group without ungrouping and deleting the group's build?

On 26/08/08 12:59 AM, "Tim Henrion" <henrion@verizon.net> wrote:

I've been doing more and more sophisticated stuff with Keynote but continue to run into one annoying issue that I'd like to see if anyone has found a way to work around.

Let's say I have 5 groups on a slide, each of which contains two shapes and a separate text object. Each of the 5 groups has its own build. What I'm trying to do is to adjust the location/position of one of the objects in one of the groups without killing that group's build. Right now, the only way I can find to move an object in a group is to ungroup it. Ungrouping it removes any builds that the group had. I've tried implementing the same without using groups but that becomes very unmanageable from a build perspective as the object count increases.

Has anyone figured out an easy way to edit an object within a group without ungrouping the group (which deletes the groups builds)?

Thanks,
Tim Henrion

I’ve top-listed your question to place my response in context. The short answer is I’ve tied to do what you have done, and can’t see a way to do it.

Grouping has a purpose, but the only way around it seems to be to duplicate the slide, ungroup the lot, move things to where you want everything to finish (you can take a screen shot of the finished animation of the previous slide and overlay on the next slide) and then take the single element of the group (now ungrouped) and do with it what you desire. Be sure to check all the timings in the Inspector as on this slide you only want that one element to do its thing, or other individual elements if you are doing still more sophisticated routines. I often find that using multiple slides rather than multiple builds on the one slide is more satisfactory, especially when it comes to advancing through the slide stack. Taking screen shots has been a really advantage, and you use the opacity function to perfectly align the slide images, then change the opacity level to hide the previous image or simply remove it knowing moving from slide to slide will show no movement at all. I sometimes find this better than trying to map the X and Y co-ordinates.

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