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I'm looking to number my presentations xx of yy. I found the message below which was posted on this board a few months ago. I was wandering if there was a version of it that would insert the number into a document rather than simply displaying it in a box. I'm VBA illiterate. Thanks,

tj
P.S. I saw some rather long debates about the merits of xx of yy numbering and whether or not it's appropriate in PP. Well, it's a coporte requirement here. Automating fully sure would be nice.
I want to create a footer like "Slide # of 10" but I'd like PowerPoint to
work out the number of slides (the way Word does). Can this be done? Cheers.
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Sub CountSlides()
'counts number of slides:
NumbSlides = ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
'shows number in MessageBox:
MsgBox NumbSlides
End Sub

Rob
 
Just a thought, but well worth exploring. I have never figured out the
problem with just manually entering this information on the Slide Master
after you have completed your presentation. Once your presentation is
developed, click "View", "Master", "Slide Master". Click inside the Slide
Number placekeeper and add the text you want. It is designed with the "<#>"
code that tells you the actual slide number. What I like to do (assuming I
have room), is to click inside the box to the left of the "#" and type
"Slide ". Then I click to the right of the "<#>" and type " of 45"
(assuming you have a 45 slide presentation). Since the "#" is dynamic, your
presentation will always say something like "Slide 1 of 45" (obviously
without the quotes) wherever your placekeeper is.

That is really quite simple (at least until we get a future version to
incorporate this feature).

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tjtjjtjt said:
I'm looking to number my presentations xx of yy. I found the message below
Click to expand...
which was posted on this board a few months ago. I was wandering if there
was a version of it that would insert the number into a document rather than
simply displaying it in a box. I'm VBA illiterate. Thanks,
tj
P.S. I saw some rather long debates about the merits of xx of yy numbering
Click to expand...
and whether or not it's appropriate in PP. Well, it's a coporte requirement
here. Automating fully sure would be nice.
 
TJ,
I have an even better solution for you than using a build it yourself
solution. Bill Dilworth, one our newest PPT MVPs has written an add-in that
will do the x of y for you. More information here:
Slide numbering - Slide XX of YY
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00548.htm

Hope this helps!
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Thanks Kathryn. I saw the add-in. I noticed it was created for XP. We're using 2000 and now some people are using 2003. I was hoping to avoind any possibility of errors, and the site for the add-in said this couldn't be guaranteed, so I was looking for an alternative just in case. The add-in seems to work fine for me, though

tj
 
The Slide numbering part of the add-in is functional in PowerPoint 97, 2000,
2002 and 2003. The 'Save selection as ...' and 'Linked summary slide'
functions error on some versions.

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tjtjjtjt said:
Thanks Kathryn. I saw the add-in. I noticed it was created for XP. We're
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using 2000 and now some people are using 2003. I was hoping to avoind any
possibility of errors, and the site for the add-in said this couldn't be
guaranteed, so I was looking for an alternative just in case. The add-in
seems to work fine for me, though.
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the specific capability that you are looking for
so you would have to enter the total slides manually, write a macro or use
a 3rd party add-in.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
have the option to include an automatically updatable slide totals "field"
to a presentations header or footer text or other calculated/dynamic fields
such as filename and path, author, modified date, etc. (without having to
resort to VBA or add-ins), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN
WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

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

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your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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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).

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