Summary Slides

[Guest]

I have read and followed the instructions for creating a summary slide. When I get to the instruction that states 'to create a summary slide open the tool bar options list. Click the summary slide button. The summary slide is inserted before the 1st slide selected......The summary slide button is not displayed in the tool bar options list. But the button is displayed on the tool bar, but greyed out. What could be the problem? Thanks in advance.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

jp46,

you have to be on the slide sorter view.

you have to have some slides selected for powerpoint to create a summary slide

hold down the Ctrl key to select more than one slide (or use the shift key in earlier versions of powerpoint)

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[TAJ Simmons]

jp46,

you have to be on the slide sorter view.

you have to have some slides selected for powerpoint to create a summary slide

hold down the Ctrl key to select more than one slide (or use the shift key in earlier versions of powerpoint)

Cheers
TAJ Simmons (wearing our the keyboard)
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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I have read and followed the instructions for creating a summary slide. When I get to the instruction that states 'to

create a summary slide open the tool bar options list. Click the summary slide button. The summary slide is inserted
before the 1st slide selected......The summary slide button is not displayed in the tool bar options list. But the
button is displayed on the tool bar, but greyed out. What could be the problem? Thanks in advance.

 

[Marshall]

From playing around with it, I would say that since the Summary Slide
only takes the slide title from what you have highlighted and creates
another slide using the same format, that it will only show up to 5
slide titles on it. Seems rather limited in that sense. Therefore you
can only creat a summary slide for 5 slides. For the next 5 slides,
you need a new summary slide. I don't see any usefulness in this. It
forces the presenter to compartmentalize the presentation to batches
of 5 slides to use this feature.

 

[Luc]

Marshall,
Are you sure about this, in my version of Powerpoint (2003) it creates a
summary slide for more then 5 slides. In fact I just created one with ten
titles on it. Powerpoint can only use titles in placeholders maybe that is
what preventing you to create one with only five.
Maybe someone else can shed some light on this issue.
cheers
Luc

From playing around with it, I would say that since the Summary Slide
only takes the slide title from what you have highlighted and creates
another slide using the same format, that it will only show up to 5
slide titles on it. Seems rather limited in that sense. Therefore you
can only creat a summary slide for 5 slides. For the next 5 slides,
you need a new summary slide. I don't see any usefulness in this. It
forces the presenter to compartmentalize the presentation to batches
of 5 slides to use this feature.


"TAJ Simmons" <[email protected]> wrote in

problem? Thanks in advance.

 

[Sonia]

In slide sorter view select the first slide, scroll to the last slide, press
and hold the Shift key and click on the last slide. That will select all of
your slides. Then press the Summary Slide icon. It will create a Summary
Slide and as many continuation slides as needed to include all of the slides
that have a Slide Title in the Slide Title placeholder. If you didn't use
Slide Title placeholders on each slide, the Summary Slide will not include
them.
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From playing around with it, I would say that since the Summary Slide
only takes the slide title from what you have highlighted and creates
another slide using the same format, that it will only show up to 5
slide titles on it. Seems rather limited in that sense. Therefore you
can only creat a summary slide for 5 slides. For the next 5 slides,
you need a new summary slide. I don't see any usefulness in this. It
forces the presenter to compartmentalize the presentation to batches
of 5 slides to use this feature.


"TAJ Simmons" <[email protected]> wrote in

problem? Thanks in advance.

 

[Luc]

Sonia,
Thanks for your answer, I have one problem though, when you suggest to
select all slides via click shift click and there are slides who do not have
a title placeholder the button in the toolbar remains greyed out and you
cannot make the summary slide. I tested this on a presentation where a few
slides were inserted using the blank slide layout, these slides caused the
button to turn grey. When i removed them from the selection with ctrl+click
the button became available again.
I am using PPT 2003 here maybe there is a different behaviour between
versions, allthough I seem to recall something similar happens with PPT 2002
and 2000.
cheers
Luc

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

If you selection includes slides where there is no text in the Title
placeholder (or a slide which doesn't include a Title placeholder), the
Summary Slide tool will be unavailable (dimmed) in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have a suggestion for changes
to summary slide creation in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your feedback
(in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

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[Sonia]

Thanks. I should have been clearer in my answer that slides without titles
should not be included in the selection.

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

As an addition:
Slides whose titles contain certain punctuation marks will grey out the
button as well. I know that we determined that commas do it, did we ever
decide what other punctuation does as well? (Forgive me for not remembering,
I am still recovering from some strange trip I took to visit other PPTers.)

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