Newbie Questions

[ianbutty]

I'm new to PTE and trying to understand a few things.

Firstly, I have created several styles.  The duration is 3.5s with a transition time of 0.8.  When I apply the style directly to an individual slide, it works fine and the duration is set as expected.  However when I include the style in a theme, the transition time of 0.8 is correct, but the duration is set to 4.3s  - As 4.3 is the sum of 3.5 and 0.8, I assume that I've set something wrong. What do I need to look at to get this to work?

Secondly, my main use will be for slideshows of theatre images - typically 150 images in a fast-paced slideshow - I'm using a theme to set some standard styles, but maybe about 30 or 40 of those images (at various points in the slideshow) I want to apply a 'special' style to.  I can CTL-click all the images that the style needs to apply to and can apply the style, but when I do all the selected slides are moved within the slide show so that they are now all consecutive immediately after the first selected slide.  How can I apply a style to multiple slides without them changing position?