Hide Objects in 2003

[excelledsoftware]

There is an awesome feature in PPT 2010 that lets you hide certain objects when working with shapes. This feature is not available in 2003 but there are many other features not available in 2010 that I use in 2003. So my question is this.

Could we possibly recreate the hide feature with a macro. I was thinking that after the user has selected all objects the macro could record the size and position on the slide and then it could shrink them down and pull them off of the slide temporarily. Once the user is done editing the macro would be able to take the hidden objects back to the original recorded size and then to the original position on the slide.



I really dont know enough about VBA to make this work and it would most likely require 2 macros 1 to record the size, position, and move them off the slide. And another to put them back with the original size and position.

Any ideas?