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      19th Apr 2007
I would like to create automatic table of contents in to my powerpoint
presentation (compare to an updatable table of contents in Word). So that if
I remove slides, table of content can be updated easily. How can I do that?
Obviously I need to use some paragraph styles (Header I etc.)? I'm really
grateful if someone can help me!
 
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      19th Apr 2007
Laura,
Unfortunately there is no such thing in PowerPoint I'm afraid.
Luckily there is an add-in by Bill Dilworth that will help you along, have a
look here:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00615.htm

--
Luc Sanders
(MVP - PowerPoint)


"Lauura" <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef in bericht
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>I would like to create automatic table of contents in to my powerpoint
> presentation (compare to an updatable table of contents in Word). So that
> if
> I remove slides, table of content can be updated easily. How can I do
> that?
> Obviously I need to use some paragraph styles (Header I etc.)? I'm really
> grateful if someone can help me!



 
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      23rd Apr 2007
Thanks for your answer. Maybe I'll use Bills add-in!

-Laura

"Luc" wrote:

> Laura,
> Unfortunately there is no such thing in PowerPoint I'm afraid.
> Luckily there is an add-in by Bill Dilworth that will help you along, have a
> look here:
> http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00615.htm
>
> --
> Luc Sanders
> (MVP - PowerPoint)
>
>
> "Lauura" <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef in bericht
> news:ECEBB737-C0F7-4A4F-A7E1-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I would like to create automatic table of contents in to my powerpoint
> > presentation (compare to an updatable table of contents in Word). So that
> > if
> > I remove slides, table of content can be updated easily. How can I do
> > that?
> > Obviously I need to use some paragraph styles (Header I etc.)? I'm really
> > grateful if someone can help me!

>
>
>

 
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Barbara White
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      20th Jun 2007
Luc wrote:
> Laura,
> Unfortunately there is no such thing in PowerPoint I'm afraid.
> Luckily there is an add-in by Bill Dilworth that will help you along, have a
> look here:
> http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00615.htm
>


I'm looking into this add-in now, but I have one question: Is it still
the case that there is not a Table of Contents feature in the latest
version of PowerPoint (2007)?

Also, without using the add-in, I wonder if there are kludges for
inserting and managing repeating information. Do features like bookmarks
or cross-references exist in PowerPoint and are they reliable? (I've
actually never used PPT to create robust or lengthy presentations, so I
don't know much about the advanced features. I volunteered to look into
this for colleagues.)

Thanks for any help.

Barbara
 
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Bob
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      20th Jun 2007
Here is information from MS

The ability to create a summary slide and a table of contents slide in your
presentation is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Instead,
to create your own summary or table of contents slide by copying slide
titles onto a new slide, do the following:

1. On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the arrow under New Slide,
and then click a slide layout that contains a large body text placeholder
(placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are part of
most slide layouts. These boxes hold title and body text or objects such as
charts, tables, and pictures.) (such as Title and Content, Two Content,
Comparison, or Content with Caption).
Note If you add a Blank slide layout, you must then add a text box. To do
this, on the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Text Box, and then drag to
draw a large text box on the new slide.

2. In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click Slides.

3. For each slide that you want to add to the summary or table of contents,
copy the title in the title placeholder, and then paste it onto the new
slide in the order in which the slide appears in your presentation.

"Barbara White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Luc wrote:
>> Laura,
>> Unfortunately there is no such thing in PowerPoint I'm afraid.
>> Luckily there is an add-in by Bill Dilworth that will help you along,
>> have a look here:
>> http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00615.htm
>>

>
> I'm looking into this add-in now, but I have one question: Is it still the
> case that there is not a Table of Contents feature in the latest version
> of PowerPoint (2007)?
>
> Also, without using the add-in, I wonder if there are kludges for
> inserting and managing repeating information. Do features like bookmarks
> or cross-references exist in PowerPoint and are they reliable? (I've
> actually never used PPT to create robust or lengthy presentations, so I
> don't know much about the advanced features. I volunteered to look into
> this for colleagues.)
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Barbara


 
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Steve Rindsberg
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      20th Jun 2007

> I'm looking into this add-in now, but I have one question: Is it still
> the case that there is not a Table of Contents feature in the latest
> version of PowerPoint (2007)?


It's still the case. No ToCs in 2007.

> Also, without using the add-in, I wonder if there are kludges for
> inserting and managing repeating information. Do features like bookmarks
> or cross-references exist in PowerPoint and are they reliable? (I've
> actually never used PPT to create robust or lengthy presentations, so I
> don't know much about the advanced features. I volunteered to look into
> this for colleagues.)


Powerpoint doesn't have any of the sort of features you'd expect a word processor
to offer for creating long, complex documents. By and large, those don't make
particularly good presentations, and PPT's brief is to create presentations.

One approach to take, if your needs fall more into the "complex document" camp is
to use Word to create your content, make a PDF and use that as the presentation
medium.

It's relatively simple to create tables of content, for example, that include
live links to the pages they reference, bookmarks become links and so on.




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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Joel Jeffery
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      13th Aug 2010
Hello!

I was searching for a way to create a Summary Slide in PowerPoint 2010 and 2007 myself just last night. I found lots of people asking "how can I create one automagically" but no real answers.

There are a few plugins, but they need you to have 32-bit Office (yawn). And they want your money.

So I wrote a VBA macro last night and I'm giving away the VBA script under a Creative Commons Public Domain license. Mine works with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of PowerPoint 2010 (and probably 2007).

Come to my <a href="http://joelblogs.co.uk">Microsoft SharePoint Blog</a> site or go straight to the article '<a href="http://joelblogs.co.uk/2010/08/13/automatically-create-summary-slides-in-powerpoint-2010">Automatically Create Summary Slides in PowerPoint 2010</a>'.

Best of luck!

Joel

> On Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:02 AM Lauur wrote:


> I would like to create automatic table of contents in to my powerpoint
> presentation (compare to an updatable table of contents in Word). So that if
> I remove slides, table of content can be updated easily. How can I do that?
> Obviously I need to use some paragraph styles (Header I etc.)? I'm really
> grateful if someone can help me!



>> On Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:13 AM Luc wrote:


>> Laura,
>> Unfortunately there is no such thing in PowerPoint I'm afraid.
>> Luckily there is an add-in by Bill Dilworth that will help you along, have a
>> look here:
>> http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00615.htm
>>
>> --
>> Luc Sanders
>> (MVP - PowerPoint)
>>
>>
>> "Lauura" <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef in bericht
>> news:ECEBB737-C0F7-4A4F-A7E1-(E-Mail Removed)...



>>> On Monday, April 23, 2007 7:56 AM Lauur wrote:


>>> Thanks for your answer. Maybe I will use Bills add-in!
>>>
>>> -Laura
>>>
>>> "Luc" wrote:



>>>> On Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:50 PM Barbara White wrote:


>>>> Luc wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking into this add-in now, but I have one question: Is it still
>>>> the case that there is not a Table of Contents feature in the latest
>>>> version of PowerPoint (2007)?
>>>>
>>>> Also, without using the add-in, I wonder if there are kludges for
>>>> inserting and managing repeating information. Do features like bookmarks
>>>> or cross-references exist in PowerPoint and are they reliable? (I've
>>>> actually never used PPT to create robust or lengthy presentations, so I
>>>> don't know much about the advanced features. I volunteered to look into
>>>> this for colleagues.)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>>
>>>> Barbara



>>>>> On Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:17 PM Bob wrote:


>>>>> Here is information from MS
>>>>>
>>>>> The ability to create a summary slide and a table of contents slide in your
>>>>> presentation is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Instead,
>>>>> to create your own summary or table of contents slide by copying slide
>>>>> titles onto a new slide, do the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the arrow under New Slide,
>>>>> and then click a slide layout that contains a large body text placeholder
>>>>> (placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are part of
>>>>> most slide layouts. These boxes hold title and body text or objects such as
>>>>> charts, tables, and pictures.) (such as Title and Content, Two Content,
>>>>> Comparison, or Content with Caption).
>>>>> Note If you add a Blank slide layout, you must then add a text box. To do
>>>>> this, on the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Text Box, and then drag to
>>>>> draw a large text box on the new slide.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click Slides.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. For each slide that you want to add to the summary or table of contents,
>>>>> copy the title in the title placeholder, and then paste it onto the new
>>>>> slide in the order in which the slide appears in your presentation.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Barbara White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>>>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...



>>>>>> On Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:14 PM Steve Rindsberg wrote:


>>>>>> It's still the case. No ToCs in 2007.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Powerpoint doesn't have any of the sort of features you'd expect a word processor
>>>>>> to offer for creating long, complex documents. By and large, those don't make
>>>>>> particularly good presentations, and PPT's brief is to create presentations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One approach to take, if your needs fall more into the "complex document" camp is
>>>>>> to use Word to create your content, make a PDF and use that as the presentation
>>>>>> medium.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's relatively simple to create tables of content, for example, that include
>>>>>> live links to the pages they reference, bookmarks become links and so on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>>>> Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
>>>>>> PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
>>>>>> PPTools: www.pptools.com
>>>>>> ================================================



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