I’m still puzzled as to what I am doing wrong. When an item is added to my home page banner, and I select it, to rearrange it to the BACK. The image was already selected ‘Show on all pages’ and yet, I still have to go into every single page and send that individual image to the back. Why does every page not update automatically, to reflect what is done to it on the master / home page? If the same image, on the master page, is deleted, there is a message comes up asking if the image is to be deleted on all pages, so there’s obviously some kind of link between them.
Hi @Alibear57, I’m afraid the element depth vs. showing on all pages is something we haven’t quite tackled yet. I agree we need to make it work, though what the feature should do exactly is not exactly deterministic, when elements visible on all pages are mixed with elements only visible locally (i.e. there’s no stable reference to what is in front of what).
Ah, thanks Duncan, for letting me know that you are still working on that problem. At least I can console myself, that it’s not something I have been doing wrong. I’m sure there’s probably a workaround for it, but I’ve struggled with that part of it for ages, and can’t think of a way of doing it. Any suggestions would be most welcome (including telling me I should retire - that might be the best option for me 
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Hi Alibear57. Once you have your banner as you want it on the home page, you don’t need to alter it on every other page. Simply cut it (the grouped elements) and it will be removed from every page and then re- paste. It will paste the new version on every page correctly. Hope this helps.
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Hi Scoutdesign, thanks for your feedback. I did know about the grouping thing and that, when all the items are grouped together, any operation performed on that group, will replicate itself on all the other pages. My main problem arises when I need to, for example, change the background, or ADD a background to all the other elements on the banner of the page. Sending the element to the back, only does it to the home page, then I have to go into every other page, select the element and click on BACK, from the arrangement panel, all of which takes 4 mouse clicks. Now that is not a HUGE task, if I have only 4 pages, but when I have 20 pages, then it is a MAJOR delay, especially if I need to repeat the whole operation, if it doesn’t look right and it needs to be moved or changed again, and the whole operation becomes completely infuriating, if the element has to be only moved behind two or more layers, then the total number of mouse clicks becomes ridiculous. But I can now also see where you’re coming from, I never noticed your bit about cutting and pasting. So what you are saying, instead of me going into ever page and deleting the content, if I get all my elements in the right place, group them, then CUT (which will delete all on the other pages), then paste it back on. Aha, you’re a genius. I’m going to leave my random ramblings on here, in case someone else was thinking the same as me. Thanks for your timely advice. (It would still be nice to have the ability to manipulate individual elements though - hint hint 
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If you remove an item that is set to appear on all pages (or rather “cut” it so that it is on the clipboard) and then paste it back in — I believe it will appear on top on all pages? Similarly, I think this idea works if you set the item to appear only on one page (accept yes to delete from all pages), make sure it at the front, and then change the setting back to “all pages”.
Yes, spucoops, thanks for your suggestions, that will work too. After I had re-read scoutdesign’s answer, I’ve now adopted his approach. I selected every element on the master page, cmd X, which gives the option to delete everything on every other page, I switch off, “view on all pages” then paste everything back, do my manipulation (whatever that might be), group it all again, then select, “view on all pages”. That seems to work the best (if I can remember it all, when the time comes to need it)