slide number on handouts

[Guest]

I have never seen PPT do this, and I'm amazed it isn't a feature at this point.

I print my slides in handout form 6 to a page; for my use, not to pass out as actual handouts. I need the slide number below (or beside) the slide. How can I do this? I DO NOT want the slide number ON the slide. This seems like a "duhhhh" kind of thing that I would think lots of people would want, but I've never been able to find it. I always have to write the numbers on the paper. This can take a lot of time in 60+ slide shows.

(I "run" the PPT for the speaker and use the handout to know what's coming up. I have to jump around in the whole file sometimes.)

 

[Guest]

Sorry. I didn't think to do a search on "slide numbers" before I posted. It is encouraging that everyone is a frustrated as I am at this lack.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hi Vicki,

There are two solutions to this. I use both every week.

Solution 1:
Hand-out wizard by Shyam.
http://www.mvps.org/skp/how/
This add-in creates handouts based on custom templates with any number of
slides per page AND slide numbers and/or slide titles where you want them.
Great stuff.

Solution 2:
Send To Word from PowerPoint.
Using the built in function (File | Send to ... | MS Word ) will yield you a
document with slide numbers slide miniatures and notes in a grid.

Hope one of these helps.

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I have never seen PPT do this, and I'm amazed it isn't a feature at this point.

I print my slides in handout form 6 to a page; for my use, not to pass out

as actual handouts. I need the slide number below (or beside) the slide. How
can I do this? I DO NOT want the slide number ON the slide. This seems like
a "duhhhh" kind of thing that I would think lots of people would want, but
I've never been able to find it. I always have to write the numbers on the
paper. This can take a lot of time in 60+ slide shows.

(I "run" the PPT for the speaker and use the handout to know what's coming

up. I have to jump around in the whole file sometimes.)

 

[Ute Simon]

I print my slides in handout form 6 to a page; for my use, not to pass out

as actual handouts. I need the slide number below (or beside) the slide. How
can I do this? I DO NOT want the slide number ON the slide. This seems like
a "duhhhh" kind of thing that I would think lots of people would want, but
I've never been able to find it. I always have to write the numbers on the
paper. This can take a lot of time in 60+ slide shows.

(I "run" the PPT for the speaker and use the handout to know what's coming

up. I have to jump around in the whole file sometimes.)

Hi Vickie,

one more idea: Put your slide numbers ON the slide master in a fairly big
font, but format them in background color, so your audience will not see
them during the slide show. Then switch to greyscale view and adjust the
settings to make sure that the numbers are printed in greyscale or b/w
printing. Thus you will see them only on your overview printouts.

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Arlene]

I use PP 2007--how do you send the slides to Word from 2007?

Arlene

 

[Arlene]

I found my own answer--see below--but Word then prints one slide per page.
How can you get it to print several slides per page?

In Office PowerPoint 2007, click the Microsoft Office Button, point to
Publish, and then click Create Handouts in Microsoft Office Word. In the Send
to Microsoft Office Word dialog box, click the page layout that you want, and
then do one of the following: To paste content that you want to remain
static, or unchanged, when the content in the original PowerPoint 2007
presentation is updated, click Paste, and then click OK. To ensure that any
updates that occur to the original PowerPoint 2007 presentation are reflected
in the Office Word 2007 document, click Paste Link, and then click OK.

Notes

If you click Paste Link, each time that you open the Word 2007 document that
contains the linked presentation, you will be prompted to accept or reject
any updates that were made to the linked presentation.
Do not move the Word 2007 handout file because, as with any linked file, the
link can easily break. To eliminate linking problems, keep all files
associated with your PowerPoint 2007 presentation in the same folder and then
link them, so that if you decide to burn your presentation to a CD, the links
will work.


Open Word 2007, and then print your handouts from Word 2007.

PS to Microsoft--this should not be so difficult to do. I get out my pen
each time to number sometimes a show with up to 100 slides--what a pain!

 

[Pia Bork]

I found my own answer--see below--but Word then prints one slide per page.
How can you get it to print several slides per page?

In Office PowerPoint 2007, click the Microsoft Office Button, point to
Publish, and then click Create Handouts in Microsoft Office Word.

In this menu you can chose between "Notes next to slides" and "Notes below
slides". "Below" means one slide per page, "next" are three slides per page
in a table. If you choose the last one you can afterwards manipulate the
slides in the Word table and make them smaller. Than you may get four slides
per page.

 

[Arlene]

Thanks! I was able to press Ctrl-A, change the format to .3-inch margins all
around, two columns so table would wrrap once on each page, select the table,
Table Properties, Row tab, Size--specify height to zero, and I managed to get
12 slides/page.

 

[Pia Bork]

Thanks! I was able to press Ctrl-A, change the format to .3-inch margins
all
around, two columns so table would wrrap once on each page, select the
table,
Table Properties, Row tab, Size--specify height to zero, and I managed to
get
12 slides/page.

nice work! I've never tried to have 12 slide per page with this feature.
When I need this I normally print handouts from Powerpoint directly. But of
course I have to do without slide numbers!

 

[Arlene]

Thanks, Michael.

Click on the Office Button, select Publish, Create Handouts in Microsoft Word.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


I use PP 2007--how do you send the slides to Word from 2007?

Arlene