naming slides 2007

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Marianne

I need my viewers to be able to pick a slide by name.

When I run slide show, right click, and choose "go to slide", I see slide
names. After I publish the presentation and run it, the above process only
shows me slide numbers. This is where I need the names. I can't seem to
find the right words to search help sites - slide title or name seem to find
everything but what I am looking for. Help!
 
Main office menu where you find new, open, save, save as, print, the last
one before close is publish which saves it to file or cd in a form that can
be viewed. Sorry about the delay, for some reason, there were two of the
same newsgroups open and I was checking one that seems to be static.
 
Hi Marianne

So what is it you are choosing to publish it as? To a CD with the viewer
(and if so do you need the viewer), to a CD without the viewer, to a folder,
a Word document... Sorry to sound pedantic, but if we know exactly what you
are doing we can see if we can reproduce the behaviour and offer a
solution/workaround.

Lucy
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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au
 
Hi Lucy,

This is my first use of power point so I followed a lot of the on line
tutorials. I need the finished product on a DVD. Tutorial says that it
needs to be "published" and saved to a file then transferred to a DVD
because it can only copy directly to a CD not a DVD.

All worked fine. Sales rep has DVD but he wants to be able to skip around
so he would like each slide named instead of numbered.

The file that shows the names (before I "publish") has an extension of .pptx
and the one that no longer shows the names is .ppt. File size of .pptx is
4,994 while size of .ppt is 27,146

I followed another tutorial that instructed me to add "titles" to each slide
and then drag them off the slide. This did not result in adding names.
Next I looked at all of the slides that did contain names in the .ppt file
(about 5 or 6 out of 35) and they took their name from a slide style that
contained a box for a caption. When I tried to add captions there was no
change to the slide names in the finished product.

As for the viewer, yes I am including this on the DVD but when I go into the
file on my hard drive, I get the same result when I click on the .bat file
or double click the .ppt file directly - no slide names.

Oh, and you don't sound pedantic. I taught computer accounting programs to
individual business for a dozen years and unless you ask exactly the right
question and give the client no way to make a judgement call, you rarely get
the details that you need to solve their problems.

Marianne
 
Hi Marianne

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Marianne said:
Hi Lucy,

This is my first use of power point so I followed a lot of the on line
tutorials. I need the finished product on a DVD. Tutorial says that it
needs to be "published" and saved to a file then transferred to a DVD
because it can only copy directly to a CD not a DVD.
Click to expand...

On a DVD that works in a computer yes? Not a DVD player? Any reason not to
distribute on a CD/USB stick/e-mail?
All worked fine. Sales rep has DVD but he wants to be able to skip around
so he would like each slide named instead of numbered.
Click to expand...

No problem. Normally. :-)
The file that shows the names (before I "publish") has an extension of
.pptx and the one that no longer shows the names is .ppt. File size of
.pptx is 4,994 while size of .ppt is 27,146
Click to expand...

That is usual when moving from pptx (2007 format) to ppt (2003 format) as
pptx is a compressed type of file (or something - I'm not a techie, as you
can tell)
I followed another tutorial that instructed me to add "titles" to each
slide and then drag them off the slide. This did not result in adding
names.
Click to expand...

That is a method used when you don't want titles to appear on the screen as
it is still handy to have them named. To name slides you just have to use
the Title Placeholder (the bit where it says 'click here to add title').
Next I looked at all of the slides that did contain names in the .ppt file
(about 5 or 6 out of 35) and they took their name from a slide style that
contained a box for a caption. When I tried to add captions there was no
change to the slide names in the finished product.
Click to expand...

Ahh, so some of them *did* have names after publish? But all of them did
before? Right? As I said above, PowerPoint takes the slide title to be
whatever is in the title placeholder.
As for the viewer, yes I am including this on the DVD but when I go into
the file on my hard drive, I get the same result when I click on the .bat
file or double click the .ppt file directly - no slide names.
Click to expand...

Do you need the Viewer? Or do all the recipients have PowerPoint installed?
Oh, and you don't sound pedantic. I taught computer accounting programs
to individual business for a dozen years and unless you ask exactly the
right question and give the client no way to make a judgement call, you
rarely get the details that you need to solve their problems.
Click to expand...

Marianne
Click to expand...

Does your file have anything linked to it like sound files, videos etc? If
it doesn't have anything linked and all recipients have PowerPoint, then I
wouldn't bother with Package for CD - I would just burn it straight to the
DVD (or e-mail it, put it on a usb stick, etc).

For what it is worth, I can't repro this behaviour, but I haven't done the
last step of actually burning to a physical DVD. That is, I Packaged for CD
to a folder, then used the viewer to play the resulting .ppt and I still got
the slide names on right click.

I'm sure we'll get there.

Lucy
 
Hi Lucy,

Thanks for the advice. Got hit with some large orders that I need to have
ready for shipment on Monday so I will not be able to try any further until
after that is completed.

So if I don't contact you again until next week, don't get all optimistic
that the situation is fixed and that I am too rude to let you know!

Marianne
 
Hi Lucy,

Hope you had a good weekend.

Slide show displays slide names. It was the viewer which takes over (if it
is in the same folder as the slide show) unless you right click the file
name and choose "show" instead of "open". Saving as a .pps instead makes
for a much smaller file and still shows slide names and now emails nicely so
no need for the DVD.

Thanks for the help but this was a case of me being too much of a newby - I
was not aware that the file could simply be saved as a .pps to finalize the
slide show. Online tutorials skip right over that small detail. I never
seem to remember to K.I.S.S.!

Marianne
 
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