page numbering

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Sonia J

Is it possible to add a footer that says "Page X of Y" and
have PowerPoint fill in the X & Y values?

Thanks,

Sonia
 
Sonia,
I'm afraid that is not possible in PPT, but you can do the following (only
when your presentation is complete).
View - Slide Master - in the right corner you will find "Number Area".
Change it so it looks like Slide <#> of Y. The Y is the total amount of
slides in your presentation, which you type yourself. Now choose View -
Header and Footer, and check the Slide number Box. Finally click apply. That
should do it. Not an elegant solution but a solution nevertheless.
Luc
 
Sure, but not using the standard page numbering box on the master slide.
Just insert this macro into your presentation and run it while in the
presentation before saving the file. An action setting works find to
activate the macro since it is not auto triggered, although it could be
built into a event capture routine.

It will replace whatever you have placed in the footer of your slide with
'page xx of xx', so .... There are several things that will cause it not to
work; so if it doesn't, drop us a line back and we'll walk you through them

Sub NumOfNum()
For x = 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
With ActivePresentation.Slides(x).HeadersFooters
.Footer.Text = "Page " & Str(x) & " of " &
Str(ActivePresentation.Slides.Count)
.Footer.Visible = msoTrue
.SlideNumber.Visible = msoFalse
End With
Next x
End Sub


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