Footnotes in PowerPoint?

[Guest]

Our team was asked to develop a powerpoint presentation with accompanying speaking points. No problem, until we tried to cite our sources in the notes section of the slide....We couldn't figure out how to create footnotes (to cite studies and authors). We then cut an paste the text in from Word. That worked ok except that the footnotes started over again at 1 on each notes page (the numbering was continuous in Word). Any ideas as to how to make continuous footnote numbering in PowerPoint?

 

[Sonia]

One way is to select the text and go to Format > Bullets and Numbering >
Numbered and change the starting number. You would need to do that for each
Notes page.
--
Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
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Our team was asked to develop a powerpoint presentation with accompanying

speaking points. No problem, until we tried to cite our sources in the
notes section of the slide....We couldn't figure out how to create footnotes
(to cite studies and authors). We then cut an paste the text in from Word.
That worked ok except that the footnotes started over again at 1 on each
notes page (the numbering was continuous in Word). Any ideas as to how to
make continuous footnote numbering in PowerPoint?

 

[glenna]

Hello Frustrated,

PowerPoint notes aren't a full featured word processor.
When I highlighted and copied text from my word document,
it included the footnote along with the text but it
changes all the numbers to one. I believe the footnote
gets copied over, but the numbering system is converted to
text. I could then change the numbers to match the
footnotes.

HTH,
Glenna

-----Original Message-----
Our team was asked to develop a powerpoint presentation

with accompanying speaking points. No problem, until we
tried to cite our sources in the notes section of the
slide....We couldn't figure out how to create footnotes
(to cite studies and authors). We then cut an paste the
text in from Word. That worked ok except that the
footnotes started over again at 1 on each notes page (the
numbering was continuous in Word). Any ideas as to how to
make continuous footnote numbering in PowerPoint?

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the ability to do automatic book note formatting
and numbering (a feature more appropriate for a word processor). You can
certainly manually create footnote text but each would have to formatting
manually (like adding footnotes to a document using a typewriter, not a
word processor) while using copy/paste to duplicate formatting from one
page to the next.

If it is important to you (or anyone else reading this message) that
PowerPoint provide support for generating footnotes, bibliography, etc.
(without having to resort to VBA or add-in), please send your feedback to
Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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