how do I document references used in powerpoint presentations?

[Guest]

Do I put a reference at the bottom of each page with a footnote or add a page
at the end of the presentation for references?

 

[Guest]

Ok, in Help, I just found out you can only put in a text box at the bottom of
the page and cite a reference there. How dumb! Word has the footnote option
which makes it easy to add to documents. Why not in Powerpoint?

Truk

 

[Echo S]

How would you suggest that adding a footnote to a PPT slide be any different
than adding a textbox to the slide?

 

[Guest]

As it stands in MS Word now, you can add a footnote anywhere which
automatically numbers the footnote in the body of the text and also at the
bottom of the page. It also keeps a sequential track of the numbers over
however many pages you have in the document. The font is set automatically
too.
If I want to do that in PPT, I have to change the font where I want to enter
the footnote number, edit all the font features and check the superscript box
and set the offset I want. Then I have to go the the bottom of the page,
select the text box, set the font to what I want, and type in the reference.
If I want to superscript the number like I had in the body, I need to
highlight the number and set the font just for the number.
This doesn't seem very productive to me.

How would you suggest that adding a footnote to a PPT slide be any different
than adding a textbox to the slide?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Ok, in Help, I just found out you can only put in a text box at the bottom of
the page and cite a reference there. How dumb! Word has the footnote option
which makes it easy to add to documents. Why not in Powerpoint?

Truk

 

[Echo S]

Thanks for clarifying. Now I understand.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

As it stands in MS Word now, you can add a footnote anywhere which
automatically numbers the footnote in the body of the text and also at the
bottom of the page. It also keeps a sequential track of the numbers over
however many pages you have in the document. The font is set automatically
too.
If I want to do that in PPT, I have to change the font where I want to enter
the footnote number, edit all the font features and check the superscript box
and set the offset I want. Then I have to go the the bottom of the page,
select the text box, set the font to what I want, and type in the reference.
If I want to superscript the number like I had in the body, I need to
highlight the number and set the font just for the number.
This doesn't seem very productive to me.

How would you suggest that adding a footnote to a PPT slide be any different
than adding a textbox to the slide?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Ok, in Help, I just found out you can only put in a text box at the

bottom
of

the page and cite a reference there. How dumb! Word has the footnote option
which makes it easy to add to documents. Why not in Powerpoint?

Truk

:

Do I put a reference at the bottom of each page with a footnote or

add a
page

at the end of the presentation for references?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

(re placing footnotes in PPT)

This doesn't seem very productive to me.

No, unfortunately it's not.

But footnoting a PPT presentation isn't a feature needed by many people
apparently -- the subject might be raised here once every couple of years or so.

MS, reasonably I think, looks to the more frequent requests when deciding what
to add and what to leave out in any upcoming version of its programs. I'm
guessing that footnoting won't make the list any time soon.

In case it helps, we have a ShapeStyles addin for PowerPoint that can create
text boxes in any style you like with a single click. If all you need is a few
styles, the free Demo, limited to five styles, should suit you fine.

http://shapestyles.pptools.com