a comma bug question?

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Geoff Cox

Hello,

I have just encountered the comma bug in that the names of slides do
not appear and slide preview does not work when using Insert hyperlink
etc!

I have some slides where this happens even thought there are no commas
in the title text. Are there other known reasons for this?

Cheers

Geoff
 
If there's a comma in the title placeholder, the problem will occur. Perhaps
you've used the title placeholder for non-title text?
 
If there's a comma in the title placeholder, the problem will occur. Perhaps
you've used the title placeholder for non-title text?
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Echo,

Could explain a little more please?!

Cheers

Geoff
 
Geoff Cox said:
Echo,

Could explain a little more please?!
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Sorry, I didn't mean to be cryptic, but I guess I really was!

When you first start a slide, usually you're using a title+bulleted text
slide layout. The textboxes say "click to add text" and "click to add
title." Those are placeholders, and the comma bug occurs if there's a comma
in the title placeholder specifically.

I was just thinking maybe what you call a title wasn't really in the title
placeholder, but some other text (complete with comma) might be.

I can't think of anything else that would prevent you from linking to a
slide.
 
Sorry, I didn't mean to be cryptic, but I guess I really was!

When you first start a slide, usually you're using a title+bulleted text
slide layout. The textboxes say "click to add text" and "click to add
title." Those are placeholders, and the comma bug occurs if there's a comma
in the title placeholder specifically.

I was just thinking maybe what you call a title wasn't really in the title
placeholder, but some other text (complete with comma) might be.

I can't think of anything else that would prevent you from linking to a
slide.
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Echo,

Thanks for the further info.

If the text was a pseudo title, would this cause the same kind of
problem as the comma in the title placeholder?

Geoff
 
Thanks for the further info.

If the text was a pseudo title, would this cause the same kind of
problem as the comma in the title placeholder?
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I don't think so, but I guess it depends on what you mean by a "pseudo
title."
 
If the text was a pseudo title, would this cause the same kind of
problem as the comma in the title placeholder?
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No. In fact that's one way of solving the problem when you MUST have commas in
the title. Drag the title off the slide, dupe it (which gives you a text box
that looks identical but isn't a placehoder) drag the dupe back to where the
title was.
 
No. In fact that's one way of solving the problem when you MUST have commas in
the title. Drag the title off the slide, dupe it (which gives you a text box
that looks identical but isn't a placehoder) drag the dupe back to where the
title was.
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OK - thanks Steve.

Cheers

Geoff
 
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