Naming Slides

[Guest]

Power point automatically is naming each of my sildes by taking the text from
the first title line. How can I get around that and either designate another
line to be the name/identifier of the slide or manually designate the slide
name??

 

[Luc]

Diep,
To the best of my knowledge this can't be done natively in Powerpoint.
Luc

 

[Michael Koerner]

Duplicate the title placeholder. drag the original off the slide, and insert
your name/identifier into it. and put whatever you want as text in the one that
is still visible on the slide. The place holder off the slide will not show
during the presentation, but will display in the Outline. The placeholder on the
slide will display during your presentation but not in your outline.
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Power point automatically is naming each of my sildes by taking the text from
the first title line. How can I get around that and either designate another
line to be the name/identifier of the slide or manually designate the slide
name??

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Power point automatically is naming each of my sildes by taking the text from
the first title line. How can I get around that and either designate another
line to be the name/identifier of the slide or manually designate the slide
name??

You don't explain why this is a problem, so it's a little difficult to guess at
a solution, but that's never stopped my babbling before, don't see why it should
now.

I'd guess you're seeing this in the slide navigator feature you get when you
right click a slide during a slide show. What happens is this: PowerPoint
shows you the text in the slide's Title placeholder (the same text that appears
at the "top" of the slide in Outline view). If there's no text in the title
placeholder, PowerPoint will display e.g. "Slide 42" instead.

So the trick would be to put whatever text you like into the title placeholder
on each slide. If you don't want that text to appear on the slide, choose View,
Master, Slide Master and drag the title placeholder just off the top of the
slide. It'll be visible while you're editing presentations but won't appear
during slide shows.

Of course if you do this, you'll have to create new text boxes for the title on
each slide where you want a title. Perhaps add a text box to the first slide
where you want this, format it to suit, then copy/paste it to any other slides
that need a title and then edit the text.