Printing Slide Numbers on Handouts in PP 2003

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Chadman

In older PowerPoint versions, you could print the slide
number below the slide in handout mode. This is
especially helpful when jumping to a particular slide in
the middle of a presentation. Does anyone know how to do
that?

Thanks,

CHADMAN
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the specific capability that you are looking for.
Slide numbers for slide images on handout pages are only printed as part of
the slide image itself.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide some additional slide numbering options for printing handouts from
PowerPoint (without having to rely on Word, VBA or add-ins), don't forget
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I strongly recommend getting a copy of Hand-Out Wizard by Shyam.
http://www.mvps.org/skp/how/ It allows you to format the handouts to
include as many slides as you want, placed & sized how you want, with slide
numbers and/or titles in separate textboxes. This allows for numbers under
the slide, next to the slide, well ... you get the idea. Very powerful
stuff. I use it every week to print the handout guide I use for our church
service's PowerPoint.

Before I started using HOW, I used to run the pages thru the inkjet printer
twice, once to create a 9 slide handout page and a second time to put slide
numbers on the pages. (I created a 40 page Publisher document that I would
use just to add the slides numbers.) Often there would be printer misfeeds,
and I would have to redo some or all of the 25+ pages. Trust me, this
add-in has paid for itself a hundred fold.

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in 2000 its right on the master (notes page too), if they are missing,
right click and select handout master layout to get access to the
placeholders

Echo said:
I don't recall this ever being possible in PPT. If you use File/Send to Word, you'll get slide numbers beside the slide.

Or you can print the slide number on the slide itself by going to View/Header and Footer and checking the box to show the slide number.
Click to expand...

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Slide number placeholder in Handout Master? Not in my version of PowerPoint
2000. Are you thinking of Page number?
 
Echo said:
But that's for numbers on the slides themselves. There's no way to print a number below each individual slide on the handouts.
Click to expand...
oops, right, I had it set at one per page so of course it was the same

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in 2000 its right on the master (notes page too), if they are missing,
right click and select handout master layout to get access to the
placeholders
Click to expand...

Page number placeholders, yes. Those number the printed pages, not the slides.

But there's no way to get the slide number to appear under each slide thumbnail when
you print handouts with multiple slides per page; that's the problem here.

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no offense but you guys should check the threaded view of these messages
before answering, Echo corrected me 1:20 ago

Steve said:
Page number placeholders, yes. Those number the printed pages, not the slides.

But there's no way to get the slide number to appear under each slide thumbnail when
you print handouts with multiple slides per page; that's the problem here.

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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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