Facing Pages in Handouts?

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I am going to be creating handouts in PowerPoint for, like, maybe the first
time in over 17 years of use with the software (I was trying for a perfect
lifetime record...oh well...). My client wants to know if it is possible to
create footers that understand right- and left-side pages -- in other words,
create a facing-page layout with numbering on the outside and text on the
inside. I am not optimistic and could not find anything in the usual places
that one would look. But what do I know...I went 17 years without creating
print handouts.

What say all of you -- can it be done? It would need to be a native
solution; the client will not accept a solution that requires scripting.
Thanks...







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In the alternative, I note the Send to Word feature, which would allow me to
perform my pagination in Word. The format I would want to choose is one
slide per page and lines for note-taking below it. When the slide images
arrive in Word, they are all well short of filling out the width and I would
want to increase their size significantly. Can a global format be set for
this? I don't relish hand-sizing about 450 slides...
 
In the alternative, I note the Send to Word feature, which would allow me to
perform my pagination in Word. The format I would want to choose is one
slide per page and lines for note-taking below it. When the slide images
arrive in Word, they are all well short of filling out the width and I would
want to increase their size significantly. Can a global format be set for
this? I don't relish hand-sizing about 450 slides...
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I used to have an insanely complex but highly automated process to do something
like this between Freelance and an oddball app you'll have heard tell off:
Ventura Publisher.

If memory serves, it involved creating a VP file with links to dummy graphics,
one per howevermany slides we figured we wouldn't have more than. Parse that
if you dare.

I'm betting it wouldn't be le science roquet to automate this in VP nowadays.
'Allo? Bob? ;-)

The trick is to make the links to carefully named/sequentially numbered files.

Slide001.PNG, Slide002.PNG and so on.

Then export the PNGs from PPT with these same names, pop them into place atop
the dummies, open the doc in VP, the links update with the new info and wallah.

Our ImageExport add-in would let you name the things and set the rez pretty
much as you like, unless you've had an attack of the sillies and committed to
doing this in 2007, where image exports are pretty well farkled, at least in
SP1.

Then again, if the notes pages view in PPT gives you all you need but facing
pages/mirrored footers, a little VB could whip through the presentation and put
a text box to one side on odd pages, to the other on even, add page numbers and
whatnot. Not REAL footers, but if you don't tell, I won't.
 
You can try this simple solution.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org/Add-ins.htm#Alt3

It prints alternating 3-up format to the default printer. If your printer
can handle dual sided printing, this may be all you need.


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Rick,

Will this add-on work for 2 up handouts? Also, once I upload this add-on,
how do I use it.
What I'm looking for is to print 2 up handouts and are double-sided. I need
odd page number to be on the right side and even page numbers to be on the
left. Can you help???? Is there a solution to my problem?

thank you,

Rhonda J.
 
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