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From: FrankieG on 22 Jan 2010 09:40 I would like to have 9 slides that I will label A-H as a table of contents. Then I would like the first activity slide (slide 10) to begin at page 1. I have two master slide layouts working fine, one with numbers and one without. PowerPoint still numbers all slides from the first (my A slide) to the last. The page numbering format does not allow starting at negative 9. Any ideas beyond entering a text box and manually making page numbers or Linking to other ppt's - neither of these are an option for this particular presentation.
From: Mark on 22 Jan 2010 12:53 On Jan 22, 9:40 am, FrankieG <Frank...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I would like to have 9 slides that I will label A-H as a table of contents. > Then I would like the first activity slide (slide 10) to begin at page 1. I > have two master slide layouts working fine, one with numbers and one without. > PowerPoint still numbers all slides from the first (my A slide) to the last. > The page numbering format does not allow starting at negative 9. Any ideas > beyond entering a text box and manually making page numbers or Linking to > other ppt's - neither of these are an option for this particular presentation. Nope. That's pretty much it. Enter the text manually, or separate each section out to a separate presentation and linking them together. (just had this same discussion with a co-worker) If you do go the route of manually typing the page numbers, be aware how much work it will be if your presentation is large and you add or delete a slide near the beginning of the presentation. (this could be automated somewhat with VBA if you know how). You might possibly be able to use VBA to renumber the slides on-the-fly in slidewhow mode if your sections are in Custom Shows.
From: John Wilson john AT technologytrish.co DOT on 22 Jan 2010 13:08
AFAIK there's no way in the GUI to do this. In 2007 you can manually alter the numbers but this might be a big job. You could have vba code do it for you. Sub nos() '2007 Dim osld As Slide Dim oshp As Shape For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides For Each oshp In osld.Shapes If oshp.Type = msoPlaceholder Then If oshp.PlaceholderFormat.Type = ppPlaceholderSlideNumber Then If osld.SlideIndex < 10 Then osld.HeadersFooters.SlideNumber.Visible = False Else osld.HeadersFooters.SlideNumber.Visible = True oshp.TextFrame.TextRange = CStr(osld.SlideIndex - 9) End If End If End If Next oshp Next osld End Sub How to use http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/vba.html -- john ATSIGN PPTAlchemy.co.uk Free PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoint_hints_and_tips_tutorials.html "FrankieG" wrote: > I would like to have 9 slides that I will label A-H as a table of contents. > Then I would like the first activity slide (slide 10) to begin at page 1. I > have two master slide layouts working fine, one with numbers and one without. > PowerPoint still numbers all slides from the first (my A slide) to the last. > The page numbering format does not allow starting at negative 9. Any ideas > beyond entering a text box and manually making page numbers or Linking to > other ppt's - neither of these are an option for this particular presentation. |