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In Publisher (2.2) is it possible to set child layers so that they inherit visibility from the parent.

I have a number of circular designs for which it is helpful to use a series of concentric circles as guides. I would like to group these under a parent layer and have their visibility inherited from the parent so I only need to toggle the parent layer visibility to hide/unhide them all.

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If the parent is a Group or a Layer layer it should work as you want. And if you need this in multiple pages, they could be in a Master Page applied to the relevant document pages, and then turning the parent's visibility off on the Master Page would affect all the document pages that have that Master applied.

-- Walt
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@walt.farrell can type faster than I can make screen recordings...

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But recordings are useful, too. Thanks!

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3.1

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Thank you both.

It is working as expected now; for some unknown reason the child layers were staying visible when the parent layer was hidden, but having set each one invisible individually, I can now control the visibility with the parent.

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