I've searched this forum high and low to find an answer to my question, but
to no avail. There are grey, numbered custom-slideshow boxes cluttering my
normal view and making it difficult to edit. Can I remove the boxes
temporarily? Thank you in advance for your help.

If you are running PPT 2002 or later....
By chance is the custom animation task pane open? If so, that would indicate
to me that the numbers are the animation order numbers. Change off of the
custom animation task pane and the numbers won't show anymore.

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"DougFir" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news57CF48D-3C8B-41C1-AF84-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've searched this forum high and low to find an answer to my question,
> but
> to no avail. There are grey, numbered custom-slideshow boxes cluttering
> my
> normal view and making it difficult to edit. Can I remove the boxes
> temporarily? Thank you in advance for your help.

Thank you for your reply. Yes, in fact the custom animation task pane was
open in PP2002. Although, I was hoping to keep the pane open *and* remove
the grey, numbered boxes from the normal slide view. Is there a way to do
that?
Thank you again.

"Kathy J" wrote:

> If you are running PPT 2002 or later....
> By chance is the custom animation task pane open? If so, that would indicate
> to me that the numbers are the animation order numbers. Change off of the
> custom animation task pane and the numbers won't show anymore.
>
> --
> Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
> Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
> Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
> I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
> if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
>
> "DougFir" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news57CF48D-3C8B-41C1-AF84-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I've searched this forum high and low to find an answer to my question,
> > but
> > to no avail. There are grey, numbered custom-slideshow boxes cluttering
> > my
> > normal view and making it difficult to edit. Can I remove the boxes
> > temporarily? Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>
>