Is it possible for an action button to be "sent backward" so it is hidden by an image, but still function? I have some slides with one picture per slide. I would like the user to click on the "correct" part of the image, and after doing so advance to the next slide. I have the show set on browse at kiosk, so action buttons are required to advance slides. However, if I move the action button backward, so it isn't visible, clicking on that area doesn't advance the slide...

"action buttons are required to advance slides."

Not really, any shape can be used. You could set it (action button or shape) to 100% transparent / no line so it is invisible even in front of an image.

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Thanks ! That worked. The only issue now, albeit small, is that when the cursor is over an action button area, it changes from an arrow to a pointing finger. An observant user may deduce that those are the correct areas of the image to click on.. That could probably be changed though...

Not easy to change the pointer finger BUT what you could do is put a transparent shape covering the whole slide under the buttons that links to the current slide (ie does nothing) or links to a "Wrong" slide. The hand will show all the time then.

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