Footer "Page X of Y" in PowerPoint? Urgent help please

I consider myself very skilled at PowerPoint, but this one is killing me.

Client wants a "Page X of Y" reference on the bottom of each slide. I can only get the current page number.

Any way to pull this off?

Thanks!

randomman1

reps coming for any help...

As you probably already know, this is easily done in Word. But I do not see where you can do this in PPT.

In View > Header and Footer you can insert page numbers, but I've not yet found how to format them the way you describe.

Well... you can do this

Go to View -> Master -> Slide MAster

in the lower right hand side it says <#> Number Area

Add the text you want to add before/After the <#>
So make sure it says: Page <#> of NUMBER

Where NUMBER is the number of slides... you count beforehand and enter this # into the field

You will also have to make sure the "Page Number" box is checked as before

You can also play around with positioning, formatting, etc.

NOT *QUITE* automatic, but better than going through a ton of pages and manually changing them

I've attached an example ppt (get rid of the txt extension... stupid SD wont let me attach a ppt). Look at the MAster Layout and copy if you like.

I tried to look for the different codes that could be used in powerpoint and came up with a zilch. Excellent low tech idea bairdjc. repped!

Unbelievable that something like this isn't available automatically in PowerPoint.

bairdjc definitely earned the rep point for the workaround! Presentation is finalized and converted to PDF...client will never know how i made it happen.

Thank you!

randomman

I am suprised that they don't have coding in ppt - e.g. in word you can type page() or now() or somehting similar to get the page or the date and time.

Quote from bairdjc : I am suprised that they don't have coding in ppt - e.g. in word you can type page() or now() or somehting similar to get the page or the date and time.

According to Microsoft [microsoft.com], putting in the static text "of N" is the only way to put the page total in a presentation.

Word needs to automatically generate the page total, because the total changes so fluidly.