a comma bug question?

[Geoff Cox]

Hello,

I have just encountered the comma bug in that the names of slides do
not appear and slide preview does not work when using Insert hyperlink
etc!

I have some slides where this happens even thought there are no commas
in the title text. Are there other known reasons for this?

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Echo S]

If there's a comma in the title placeholder, the problem will occur. Perhaps
you've used the title placeholder for non-title text?

 

[Geoff Cox]

If there's a comma in the title placeholder, the problem will occur. Perhaps
you've used the title placeholder for non-title text?

Echo,

Could explain a little more please?!

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Echo S]

Echo,

Could explain a little more please?!

Sorry, I didn't mean to be cryptic, but I guess I really was!

When you first start a slide, usually you're using a title+bulleted text
slide layout. The textboxes say "click to add text" and "click to add
title." Those are placeholders, and the comma bug occurs if there's a comma
in the title placeholder specifically.

I was just thinking maybe what you call a title wasn't really in the title
placeholder, but some other text (complete with comma) might be.

I can't think of anything else that would prevent you from linking to a
slide.

 

[Geoff Cox]

Sorry, I didn't mean to be cryptic, but I guess I really was!

When you first start a slide, usually you're using a title+bulleted text
slide layout. The textboxes say "click to add text" and "click to add
title." Those are placeholders, and the comma bug occurs if there's a comma
in the title placeholder specifically.

I was just thinking maybe what you call a title wasn't really in the title
placeholder, but some other text (complete with comma) might be.

I can't think of anything else that would prevent you from linking to a
slide.

Echo,

Thanks for the further info.

If the text was a pseudo title, would this cause the same kind of
problem as the comma in the title placeholder?

Geoff

 

[Echo S]

Thanks for the further info.

If the text was a pseudo title, would this cause the same kind of
problem as the comma in the title placeholder?

I don't think so, but I guess it depends on what you mean by a "pseudo
title."

 

[Geoff Cox]

No. In fact that's one way of solving the problem when you MUST have commas in
the title. Drag the title off the slide, dupe it (which gives you a text box
that looks identical but isn't a placehoder) drag the dupe back to where the
title was.

OK - thanks Steve.

Cheers

Geoff