footers, slide master, slides, viewing footer text on slides

[KB447]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Finally discovered what controls the showing footer on the slides. I could not find documentation in any help files, but finally stumbled on it by process of elimination. To get the date, footer or page number to show up on the slides, you have to View: Header and Footer, and check boxes for each field. Also if you want to have a better view of footer text, view and edit it in the View: slide master view, rather than the header and footer box, which has a tiny text window.

 

[CyberTaz]

Glad you worked it out but I'm not sure how you missed it in PPt Help - the
following topic is among the hits if you search on either header or footer:


[Add a header or footer]

You can add information that will appear on all slides. For example, you can
add the date and time that the presentation was created, the slide number,
and the name of the presentation. You can move the footer placeholder to the
top of the slide to create a header.
On the View menu, point to Master, and then click Slide Master.
On the View menu, click Header and Footer.
On the Slide tab, do any of the following:
To add
Do this
The current date and time in the lower-left corner
Select the Date and time check box, click Update automatically, and then on
the pop-up menu, click the date or time in the format you want.
The slide number to every slide
Select the Slide number check box, and then in the Starts at box, enter the
page number that you want to start with.
A footer to the bottom of every slide
Select the Footer check box, and then in the box below the check box, type
the text that you want in your footer.
A header or footer to every slide but the title slide
Select the Don't show on title slide check box.
Click Apply to All.
On the View menu, click Normal.
Tip If your headers or footers aren't appearing on every page, in Slide
Master view, on the Insert menu, point to Master Placeholders, and then
click the ones that are missing.
See also
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Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Hawkeye]

This is idiotic.

One should be able to change the footer in the master slide view.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

This is idiotic.

One should be able to change the footer in the master slide view.

Hi,

Man am I confused about this one. I see the same thing when I use View

Header and Footer in Slide master and in normal view.

-Jim

 

[CyberTaz]

The placeholders you are able to access on the Masters control size,
position & formatting - not content. They are the actual fields where the
specified content is displayed but that content has to be supplied from
elsewhere - just like typing content into the Title Placeholder on a Master
doesn't cause that content to appear on the slides.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac