Automatically insert total # pages into Powerpoint presentation

[Guest]

It is a pain to have to modify the total number of slides on the master slide
every single time a slide is added or removed from a presentation. Word has
the capability to do the same thing for total number of pages in a document
by placing a "NumPages" field anywhere within the file. Why isn't this
capability incorporated as a standard feature in PowerPoint?

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[Guest]

Because the developpers don't use ppt themselves, I suppose...Or they don't
know the facility on Word?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Yes, I am a developer; and yes, I do use PowerPoint a lot.

Are you looking for help with something or are you trolling for arguments?


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[Guest]

OK. Now I'm writing to a living person and not to an anonymous computer.
Thank you.
But.
1. You gave a reaction, not an answer
2. I expect an answer: why # of N pages is not included in PPT2007 as it is
in Word?
3. What is the solution to the problem?
Thanks in advance !

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Lodew,

You missed the key (and most relevant to you) part of Bill's answer: we
are not Microsoft employees. We are users just like you, except that we
volunteer to give (mostly) friendly answers to questions from users like
you. Many of us agree with you that it would make sense to put a # of N
feature in PowerPoint, but it's not up to us. We make suggestions that
are ignored by Microsoft with about the same frequency as suggestions
from everyone else.

We can answer questions about how to do something or how to work around
things that can't be done the normal way, but we cannot answer why
Microsoft does or does not do something. We don't know the answer to why
any more than anyone else.

I suggest everyone take a deep breath. You accidentally hit a raw nerve
because you didn't realize that you were talking to: (a) real people and
(b) talking to users just like you. Now that we are all clear, we will be
happy to answer an how-to questions, but you'll have to direct the why
questions elsewhere.

--David

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Loyola College in Maryland
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