HOW DO I DISPLAY "LAST MODIFIED DATE" IN A FOOTER?

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HOW DO I DISPLAY "LAST MODIFIED DATE" IN A FOOTER? or in the presentation?

SAVEDATE Fields works for WORD

Macros work for EXCEL

POWERPOINT?
 
While in your slide master (View > Slide Master), select
View > Header/Footer
Select Date and Time and Update Automatically, Choose Desire format.
Select Apply

In your master slide find the <date/time> footer placeholder. Right before
the "<" type "Last Modified Date". Now this text will appear on all of your
slides with the date of the day.
 
Sandy, This will show today's date when you open it. I want to see the date
that it was last modified. Hope you can help.
Thanks
 
This is as close as I can get...
--
Sandy


cnestg8r said:
Sandy, This will show today's date when you open it. I want to see the date
that it was last modified. Hope you can help.
Thanks
Click to expand...
 
This is a good question. Think about this issue for a moment. Say I wanted
to

know if changes were made to a presentation. If I was the author of the

presentation and the only one making changes then you must make use of the

autoupdate feature since Powerpoint does not track the AUTHOR'S
modifications on a

slide-by-slide basis. However, it can automatically update each slide to
reflect

the last date the file opened and saved - (following Sandy's previous
instructions

:-). Also, if you don't make any changes to the file and don't save the
file (and

do not have the automatic save feature ON), the dates on the slides won't be

changed.

Now, say I wanted to know if changes were made (BY OTHERS) to a
presentation. I

would use the Track Changes feature in PowerPoint as it does track changes
made by

others to your presentation. Whenever you send a presentation for Review, it

tracks every change. See the help file for details on this. If you wanted
to get

tricky, you could review the presentation yourself in order to track every
change

you, as the AUTHOR, make.

In summary, since a SLIDE is only a part of the PowerPoint presentation file,

having a modification date on each slide may not, really, give you accurate

information. A better solution is to update the entire file (every slide)
with

today's date (as Sandy instructs) if you are making the changes to a
presentation

you authored. Or, send the file to yourself or others for Review and use the

Track Changes feature to get specific details on every change made.

Let me know if this helps.

/RA
(e-mail address removed)
 
Ruth Allen,
Thanks for the feedback. I am fine documenting only a file modification
versus a slide by slide change. The problem with Sandy's solution is that the
date changes to today's date even if there is NO modification to any slide.
The modification date is recorded in the document properties. How do we get
to it to show it in a footer?
 
Dear cnestg8r,

If you DO NOT save the file, the properties date and time doesn't change.
In addition to the date, choose a format that shows date and time to the
second - ( ex. 12/21/2005 9:44:24 AM.). I tested it just to make sure and it
doesn't change the properties. (Make sure you check the "update
automatically" box so you don't have to remember to update it each time.)

To create the footer, follow these steps:

Working with PowerPoint Template
-----------------------------------------
1. Click VIEW Master Slides (title slide, content slide, and any other
slides in your master template - usually just 2)

2. Highlight the <date/time> element in the master slide (bottom left
corner) in the footer and click INSERT - date/time.

3. Click the format desired and click the 'update automatically' checkbox
and click OK.

4. Adjust the size and placement of the textbox and apply any other
formatting desired on the master slide and copy the finished textbox if
needed on other slide/s.

5. If textbox needed on other slide footers, delete the current textbox in
footer and paste-in the new one.

Working without PowerPoint Template
--------------------------------------------------
- You can follow the same instructions for working with a template as your
has a slide master regardless or you can follow the instructions below.

1. Click in the textbox created and click INSERT date/time.

2. The HEADER/FOOTER dialogue box comes up allowing you to designate FOOTER
as the position for the date/time (default placement in bottom left corner of
slide - can be changed), and select the format desired. Also choose to apply
this footer to all slides or just the current slide. Remember to check
'update automatically' if you want this feature.

3. Modify the style of the footer by clicking VIEW master slide.

4. Highlight the <date/time> element in the footer of the master slide to
make adjustment to the style of the footer. (You won't see the changes until
you close the master slide view.)

IF YOU'RE STILL HAVING TROUBLE, I CAN DO THIS FOR YOU OR YOU CAN CONTACT ME
AND I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH IT/ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS - NO CHARGE!

/RA
(e-mail address removed)
(215) 820-3562
MERRY CHRISTMAS...and remember...
JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!:-)
 
Hi!

Did you manage to get a definitive answer on this? I'm in the same position
and would love to know how to get a SaveDate stamped on my Presentation.

Thanks Jo
 
Thanks Brian, although that means nothing to me - I'm not familiar with VBA -
any suggestions?

Jo
 
Guys, I was surprised but even in the PowerPoint 2007 I cannot find such
simple option to place property information to a slide. It is so easy to add
property values to a Word document. But seems like that PowerPoint does not
have this functionality.

--Vovan
 
Guys, I was surprised but even in the PowerPoint 2007 I cannot find such
simple option to place property information to a slide. It is so easy to add
property values to a Word document. But seems like that PowerPoint does not
have this functionality.
Click to expand...

Unfortunately, you're right. PowerPoint can't do this.

At least not without help from additional software. Have a look here:

Slide numbering - Slide XX of YY
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00548.htm
 
What if you want to modify the actual field that reperesents the slide number or the date?

For example.

The presentation automatically generates the current date, and I want to just replace it with <Date>.
 
What if I want to modify the date field in the object model to insert my own data. Is there a way to do that? There doesn't seem to be any field in the object model.
 
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