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Thanks for your quick reply Igor. Phew I thought I was missing something obvious. I hope it is indeed introduced in a future version as I think it would be of help, especially to those who are not used to the O & A editor. I was going to use a couple of styles for my camera club, for less experienced members dabbling in AV for the first time. Also thanks Dave, I did know about text comments from the User Manual. Well done for that by the way. Now I know why options were not mentioned in it.

Can anyone help. Have noticed when selecting slide styles there are options for altering zoom size, blur, opacity etc. In the borders category for instance. I want to create a style with such options but cannot find any way to do it. Have searched thru forum and the User Guide but have found no mention of options. So how did they get there and how are they created? Am using version 9.0.16. Yes, I do have the deluxe version and I cannot find any way to do it in the create style pop up dialog window. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks to all members who have replied to my post and especially jt who pointed me to a very interesting debate on this subject in another post. Last night was our Camera Club AV group meeting and I showed our members Ver8 and some of the new features. I was naturally asked about Slide Styles and how it would benefit newcomers to AV work. We do have like most groups a mix of experience and newcomers. I wasn't able to answer definately yes go ahead and use them as I was still somewhat confused myself and I hadn't been able at the time to do some experimentation. They certainly didn't work as I thought they would from Igors blurb. After experimentation I must agree with Peter (PGA) that you need to know you are going to use a style before you start to program your show, do it first and then do the timing/animation on other slides. However eg. if you find after completing your show and you "think I dont like that style after all" and deleting that style through clicking no style this alters the timing further down the timeline. Not desirable. I know Slide Styles are a WIP like the earlier sound editing forays, but for a newcomer the way it is implemented now could be very confusing. I and other members of our group will do more work on this so we can improve our workflow, but just clicking a button and expecting it to work it is not. Terry

I'm not a newby to PTE or viewing this forum. It's just that I don't normally post. Except now of course when I need advice. Just downloaded v8 and playing with the new additions. Have found a strange anomoly, tried using Styles on a sequence which is already set up (v7.5). However no matter which style I select the timing goes completely bonkers on slides after the one selected (though not every one). Any slides which had animation loses the time allowed and the following slide then takes that time. I make sure the duration of style matches the slide, so what am I doing wrong? if anything, or is this a bug? Also when I set a full duration and apply, the timing on that slide is wrong, eg duration + transition should be 8 sec now maybe is only 4 sec, which maybe explains the problems further down the sequence. Anybody with any ideas. Terry