More than one or multiple notes pages (not using hide slide)

[Beth Swathmore]

Hello,

Most of what's built into PowerPoint 2007 I don't need, but what I do REALLY
REALLY need is the ability to have multiple pages of notes for each slide.
Is there any way to get this without the ridiculous "hide slide" trick?

In short, I want to start writing notes for a slide and have the notes
continue for 2-10 pages, if necessary, without having to worry about font
size formatting, page breaks, cutting-and-pasting from one slide to the
next, etc. (I can't be the only person who has ever requested this! -- Hey
Microsoft! Instead of adding more obscure exotic junk I don't need in
PowerPoint 2010, why don't you add multiple notes pages!!!!)

If this is possible already and I'm just being stupid, I will happily admit
my stupidity... Or if I can do this in Word and then export all the slides
from Word into a slide deck --with or without notes-- that would be fine too
(but syncing between Word and PowerPoint has never worked reliably for me).

Many thanks in advance,
Beth

 

[Echo S]

Actually, this is a feature in PPT 2010.

 

[John Wilson]

I believe 2010 beta does do multiple notes pages.
but I could be wrong

You might like to try our AddIn (free) supertypist that basically neatly
types out your notes in Word for you. No slide images - just the notes

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/PPT2WORD.html
scroll down a bit for the AddIn

 

[Beth Swathmore]

Actually, this is a feature in PPT 2010.

LOL! My apologies to Microsoft, I was cursing them again as I wrote my
question....

I haven't been able to find a URL reference about this yet, but I suppose I
can just wait for the final release (or get the beta).

Thanks!

 

[Jaime]

or it still is low priority, but they ran out of other features to add in
2010 version )

 

[Echo S]

LOL! My apologies to Microsoft, I was cursing them again as I wrote my
question....

I haven't been able to find a URL reference about this yet, but I suppose
I can just wait for the final release (or get the beta).

Thanks!

Heh, I've done exactly the same thing more than once, believe me!

You know, that's one of those features that will never make it into the
marketing materials...but which is important to people like us.

I made a list of new features in PPT 2010. It's here:
http://www.echosvoice.com/2010.htm (well, click the link on that page). I'm
sure I've missed a few things here and there, but I can always add them as
I run into them. But I think it's as official as you're gonna find for some
of them!

 

[Jason Fossen]

I made a list of new features in PPT 2010. It's here:

http://www.echosvoice.com/2010.htm

Thanks for the tip, Echo! And I can confirm that it works, but with a
couple small issues, here are the steps:

When too much text is typed into the notes area in PowerPoint, the extra
notes have to be cut-and-pasted into a new slide and then that slide made
hidden. You don't have to do this in PowerPoint 2010 anymore. In the new
version, you can make it so that the excess notes are automatically wrapped
to a new page when you print it or save it as PDF.

It's not enabled by default, though, so this is how you do it:

Open a slide deck >
File tab on the ribbon >
Options >
Proofing >
AutoCorrect Options button >
AutoFormat As You Type tab >
Uncheck the box for "AutoFit body text to placeholder"

Notice that the excess text still spills over the notes area when viewing in
Notes Page View; however, when you print the deck or save to PDF, the
spillover text automatically goes onto new pages.

To test this, go to File tab > Print > select "Notes Pages" to print on the
left-hand side > on the right-hand side scroll down in the print preview to
a slide with too much text; if that slide is on page number 10, for example,
you'll see additional page number 10's after it to contain the excess text.
(When you do File > Save As > PDF, the PDF is formatted the same way.)

The two odd things I've noticed so far is 1) you can have multiple physical
pages with the same page number printed at the bottom, but this is trivial
in comparison to the time/effort savings, and 2) embedded screenshots in the
excess text are not printing correctly (but hopefully I'm doing it wrong so
that there is a way to make these graphics show).

Cheers,
Jason