Presentation Status / Location Bar

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In a recent presentation I noticed a clever status bar along the bottom of each slide that actively indicated the current position within presentation, i.e. 10%, 25%, 75%, etc… It was similar to the type of moving status bar that you see when you are downloading data or installing new software, the ones that fill from left (0%) to right (100%). Does anybody know how to add this feature within PowerPoint? I think that it’s a great idea to covey this bit of information to the audience!
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-Justin
 
I am wondering if this is a good idea. If you work from the idea of only one
idea per slide (could have multiple bullets about that point) you may end up
with a large number of slides. Therefore I thinking that the % bar may make
your learner tired and they may spend more time watching that bar instead of
hearing your message. It is because of these same reasons I do not use slide
numbers. Just my humble thoughts. Fay


justintime said:
In a recent presentation I noticed a clever status bar along the bottom of
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each slide that actively indicated the current position within presentation,
i.e. 10%, 25%, 75%, etc. It was similar to the type of moving status bar
that you see when you are downloading data or installing new software, the
ones that fill from left (0%) to right (100%). Does anybody know how to
add this feature within PowerPoint? I think that it's a great idea to
covey this bit of information to the audience!
 
You could do it manually - add a slide length thin rectangle to the last
slide - take a note of its length dimension in the Format | Autoshape
ddialog box. Divide the length by the number of slides. Remember this
figure.

Copy the bar to each slide backward - and keep reducing the size by the
figure you remembered.

I'm sure someone could do an add-in with this idea - it would be a cool
thing to play with <g>.


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justintime said:
In a recent presentation I noticed a clever status bar along the bottom of
Click to expand...
each slide that actively indicated the current position within presentation,
i.e. 10%, 25%, 75%, etc. It was similar to the type of moving status bar
that you see when you are downloading data or installing new software, the
ones that fill from left (0%) to right (100%). Does anybody know how to
add this feature within PowerPoint? I think that it's a great idea to
covey this bit of information to the audience!
 
You could do it manually - add a slide length thin rectangle to the last
slide - take a note of its length dimension in the Format | Autoshape
ddialog box. Divide the length by the number of slides. Remember this
figure.

Copy the bar to each slide backward - and keep reducing the size by the
figure you remembered.

I'm sure someone could do an add-in with this idea - it would be a cool
thing to play with <g>.
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Oh. You mean like:

Add a "thermometer" progress bar to each slide
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00597.htm


;-)


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You are certainly nice enough to make an add-in from that for all of us. <g>
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Maybe I'll do that as the "How to make an addin" demo at PPT Live.

In the meanwhile ...

Create an ADD-IN with TOOLBARS that run macros
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00031.htm

<G>

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