For managing complex slides, go to the Home tab on the ribbon. From the Editing group choose Select | Selection pane. This allows you to set the visibility of the objects on the current slide, thus allowing you to hide the objects you are not concerned with at the moment (e.g. when creating an animation).
See also http://www.powerpointninja.com/powerpoint-2007/new-selection-pane-will-keep-you-sane/.
If you change the footer or other parts of the Slide Master slides, sometimes you find that these changes do not appear on your slides. This happens if you changed something in your slides (such as deleted the footer). You can reapply the layout by right-clicking on the slide and selecting Layout and the selected template.
If that still doesn’t help, you can try deleting the problematic elements from your slide and re-add them through Insert.
The table of contents feature was removed from PowerPoint from version 2007. This free VBA macro generates the TOC: http://joelblogs.co.uk/2010/08/31/auto-summary-slides-for-powerpoint-2010-vba-macro-with-hyperlinks-free/ (mirror).
The default connector cannot be used to create sophisticated polylines and realignes automatically when you drag an endpoint. To work around this behaviour, you can use the Curve tool to create a polyline.
Ctrl and click to start the polylineCtrl and place points in the polyline.Enter to end the polyline.If you would like to use the objects in their position after the animation, use the Motion Path End Position macro.
According to the page, it supports “PowerPoint 2002 or later” – it works with PowerPoint 2016 as well!
You need to allow the Developer tab on the ribbon. To allow it, follow this guide: File | Options | Customize Ribbon page, Customize the Ribbon | Main Tabs | check the Developer check box.
Let’s suppose you want to move an object to the right across the slide and you would like to make sure that the object moves following a perfectly horizontal path (without jumping a few pixels up or down). Here’s how to do it:
PPspliT is available on http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~rimondin/downloads.php
This applies if you run PowerPoint in VMware on a Linux host machine. If you put a vector graphical image (e.g. an arrow) on the clipboard and switch to the host machine, the image gets rasterized. If you go back to the virtual machine an insert it, it will be inserted as a simple rasterized image.
The recommended approach is to use PowerPoint’s own PDF export feature.
If PowerPoint’s own PDF export does not work properly, try a PDF printer. For Adobe PDF, use the following configurations:
Note that it is not possible to get the hyperlinks working with a PDF printer.
<([0-9]@)>. dia^13^13. (Replace with nothing.) Don’t forget to select in the advanced settings, that this is regex.^13^m^13. (Replace with nothing.) Don’t forget to select in the advanced settings, that this is regex.^13^13 with ^13.9,55 cm x 7,16 cm). Set the margins to zero and dismiss the warning.If you save to OneDrive, this could be slow.
Embedding OpenType Fonts (OTF) to exported PDF documents is not possible, therefore the text in the exported document will be rasterized and not searchable. A possible workaround is to obtain TrueType Fonts (TTF) version of the same font family. If this is not possible, you can try converting the OTF files to TTF ones using FontForge. For details, see the “How do I convert from one outline format to another?" in the FAQ.
unzip -vl presentation.pptx | tail -n+4 | head -n-2 | sort -hr -k3 | numfmt --to=iec --field=1,3 | less
If you select a part of a slide and choose Save as picture from the local menu, the quality of the exported image will be sub-par. Instead, save the whole slide and crop if necessary.
Have you ever seen labels such as 190001900ral in your PowerPoint file? (If not, just Google it.)
Why is this happening?
This is most probably caused by editing a presentation in an English version of PowerPoint, then opening it in a Hungarian version. (I haven’t found any explication yet on-line, thus I’m guessing after some trials.) The English PowerPoint will use by default the General number format for the labels. This will be serialized as <c:numFmt formatCode="General"/>. However, the Hungarian PowerPoint will try to parse it as a regular number format.
G is most probably a valid format character for some exotic calendars, which results in an empty string.e seems to be equivalent to yyyy, even in the English version of PowerPoint/Excel.n is not recognized as a number format character in the English version, but in the Hungarian version, it stands for day (of month).ral will not be recognized as a number format string, and thus displayed as it is.
Therefore the Hungarian PowerPoint will display the number 0 as 190001900ral, the number 20 as 1900201900ral, the number 40 as 190091900ral (as 40 represents the day 1900-02-09), etc.How to solve it?
Modify the number format to Number (0 without any special formatting, #,##0 with thousands separator, #,##0.00 with decimal separator). These will be unambiguously serialized, e.g., <c:numFmt formatCode="#,##0"/>.
If you don’t need any separators, use 0. The #,##0 causes some troubles sometimes due to the differences in decimal separators (the number 100,000 might be shown as 100000,0 in the Hungarian version, furthermore it caused PPT2007 to freeze).
Why does it work in Excel?
Excel assigns IDs to each custom number format and they are stored separately (in xl/styles.xml). If a cell has a custom number format, it is referred using its ID (e.g. <f t="shared" si="0"/>). If a cell has a General number format, no format setting is serialized for the cell.