Advice and answers from the Seidat Team

Emma Ojapuska
Written by Emma Ojapuska

Locking and unlocking slide elements and their positions

Lock elements or element positions on the slide so no one accidentally moves them.


Locking elements is a handy tool to prevent accidental changes in the slides and helps to edit the slides too.

  • Lock elements to prevent accidental changes from anyone in the team with editing rights.
  • Lock elements on slides, where there are a lot of elements to make editing easier.
  • You can lock elements from the top toolbar from the lock icon (image below).

  • You can also lock text element positions from the top toolbar from the lock icon (image below). When you lock the text element position, the content of the text can be edited, but the position of the element will be locked

  • On the element stack on the right, you can also lock elements / element positions (image below)

  • On the element stack, you can also bring elements backward and forwards quickly by dragging the elements up and down on the list (see picture 2.).
  • To unlock an element, simply press the lock icon next to the name of the element.
  • Naming pictures, logos, etc. accordingly helps to distinguish the different elements from the stack.
  • Once an element is locked, it can't be resized, moved, or edited in any way.
  • If you copy the page, the locked elements will be automatically locked by default
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