Frozen Slide

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I have a presentation that contains two slides. The first
slide contains our company logo and some pictures that I
inserted from file(s) (jpeg). I have also inserted some
text boxes on the first slide.

The second slide contains only a text box.

When I try to "click" on the text boxes or jpegs on the
first slide, they do not become highlighted. It's as if I
cannot "access" the slide to edit anything.

I can hightlight the text box on the second slide and edit
that.

Any ideas what happened to the first slide?
 
Is it possible that you were in View > Master > Title Master or Slide Master
when you inserted the items? Go to View > Master and see if they can be
accessed from there. If so, remove them and return to View > Normal and add
them to slide #1 directly.
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Okay, out on a limb Kathy has an idea:
Is it possible that what you think is text on the second slide is really a
graphic that has been inserted as the background for that slide? To check,
right click the slide, select background and see what comes up.


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Either try that again and when you see the "bounding box", press delete.
Then see if you can select your text objects. It could be that you have a
rectangle on the upper layer that has no fill and no line. You might also
have applied a different autolayout *after* the textboxes and jpegs were
inserted. The autolayout objects could be inhibiting the selection of your
objects.

Or the way to really find out what is on your slide is to zoom out so that
you can see all four borders. Then click someplace off the slide. Now
press the tab key multiple times (slowly). Each press of the tab key will
highlight an object, and they will be highlighted basically in the order
that they were inserted, if they haven't been reordered. That should give
you information about what is on the slide. Stuff that is on top of
something else will "mask" it from directly selection. I hope that isn't
too confusing. Try it and I think you'll start to see what I've so poorly
put into words.
 
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