cross slide counting?

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Guurt

Hello All, I have a presentation in which on several slides numbers in a
standard place holder are being updated frequently (edited in 'Normal
mode'). On the final slide it would be nice if the 'over all grand total'
would be presented.

So, is it possible to have a kind of 'cross slides counting'? (and when new
slides are inserted in between the counted slides, that those are taken into
total account automatically?)

Thanx!
Guurt
 
Sure, it is something for me, it just is not the solution I am looking
for...

I need a kind of Excel calculator across PowerPoint slides....I think...

but thanks anyway!

Guurt
 
You could delete the slide number placeholder from all master slides then
create an additional master slide that does have the placeholder. Apply this
to the last slide using Format | Slide Design and choose that from the "used
in this presentation" part of the task pane.

Then use View | Header and Footer and tick the box to show the slide number.
Also tick the "don't show on title" box.

This should apply a slide number to only the last slide, at which point the
total number of slides would show.
 
Thanks Echo, but it is not the slide number, nor the number of slides I want
to count.

I want to make a calculation of the sum of certain numbers (data) that are
typed in by hand in 'normal mode' in place holders on certain slides in a
presentation, and have the sum presented on the final slide.

So, a calculation of the sum of those numbers that are typed throughout the
whole presentation.

....hope this question is more clear...or am I asking something weird...?..

Thanx All,
Guurt


Echo S said:
You could delete the slide number placeholder from all master slides then
create an additional master slide that does have the placeholder. Apply
this to the last slide using Format | Slide Design and choose that from
the "used in this presentation" part of the task pane.

Then use View | Header and Footer and tick the box to show the slide
number. Also tick the "don't show on title" box.

This should apply a slide number to only the last slide, at which point
the total number of slides would show.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/


Guurt said:
Sure, it is something for me, it just is not the solution I am looking
for...

I need a kind of Excel calculator across PowerPoint slides....I think...

but thanks anyway!

Guurt
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Ah, that makes it more clear. I completely didn't understand what you were
asking.

PowerPoint doesn't have anything like this. I don't know if it's doable with
VBA or not. Probably is, but I'm not a coder, so I couldn't even tell you
how to begin.

You know, I wonder if PPTMerge might work here. Basically, you'd type all
the stuff into Excel, then populate textboxes in PPT with that information.
http://www.pptools.com/merge/index.html

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/


Guurt said:
Thanks Echo, but it is not the slide number, nor the number of slides I
want to count.

I want to make a calculation of the sum of certain numbers (data) that are
typed in by hand in 'normal mode' in place holders on certain slides in a
presentation, and have the sum presented on the final slide.

So, a calculation of the sum of those numbers that are typed throughout
the whole presentation.

...hope this question is more clear...or am I asking something weird...?..

Thanx All,
Guurt


Echo S said:
You could delete the slide number placeholder from all master slides then
create an additional master slide that does have the placeholder. Apply
this to the last slide using Format | Slide Design and choose that from
the "used in this presentation" part of the task pane.

Then use View | Header and Footer and tick the box to show the slide
number. Also tick the "don't show on title" box.

This should apply a slide number to only the last slide, at which point
the total number of slides would show.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/


Guurt said:
Sure, it is something for me, it just is not the solution I am looking
for...

I need a kind of Excel calculator across PowerPoint slides....I think...

but thanks anyway!

Guurt


Guurt,
Maybe this add-in in something for you:
http://billdilworth.mvps.org/PageXXofYY.htm

--
Luc Sanders
(MVP - PowerPoint)
"Guurt" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
Hello All, I have a presentation in which on several slides numbers in
a standard place holder are being updated frequently (edited in
'Normal mode'). On the final slide it would be nice if the 'over all
grand total' would be presented.

So, is it possible to have a kind of 'cross slides counting'? (and
when new slides are inserted in between the counted slides, that those
are taken into total account automatically?)

Thanx!
Guurt
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Echo, but it is not the slide number, nor the number of slides I want
to count.

I want to make a calculation of the sum of certain numbers (data) that are
typed in by hand in 'normal mode' in place holders on certain slides in a
presentation, and have the sum presented on the final slide.

So, a calculation of the sum of those numbers that are typed throughout the
whole presentation.
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This is something that you could do in VBA but not in PPT right out of the box.



....hope this question is more clear...or am I asking something weird...?..

Thanx All,
Guurt

Echo S said:
You could delete the slide number placeholder from all master slides then
create an additional master slide that does have the placeholder. Apply
this to the last slide using Format | Slide Design and choose that from
the "used in this presentation" part of the task pane.

Then use View | Header and Footer and tick the box to show the slide
number. Also tick the "don't show on title" box.

This should apply a slide number to only the last slide, at which point
the total number of slides would show.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/


Guurt said:
Sure, it is something for me, it just is not the solution I am looking
for...

I need a kind of Excel calculator across PowerPoint slides....I think...

but thanks anyway!

Guurt


Guurt,
Maybe this add-in in something for you:
http://billdilworth.mvps.org/PageXXofYY.htm

--
Luc Sanders
(MVP - PowerPoint)
"Guurt" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
Hello All, I have a presentation in which on several slides numbers in
a standard place holder are being updated frequently (edited in 'Normal
mode'). On the final slide it would be nice if the 'over all grand
total' would be presented.

So, is it possible to have a kind of 'cross slides counting'? (and when
new slides are inserted in between the counted slides, that those are
taken into total account automatically?)

Thanx!
Guurt
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