In my slide master I have it set to display the slide number in the footer of each slide. These numbers display fine when I am working on the slides in PowerPoint, however when I publish the course I only see "<#>" displayed in the corner of each slide instead of the corresponding slide number. Is there any way to fix this? Thank you!
What about a pptx file? My slide number is showing as 'Page <#> of 23' after publication. Prior to publication it shows at 'Page 1 of 23' however. Any development on this?
PowerPoint's slide number placeholder is supported in Articulate Presenter. For it to work properly in your published course, the slide number placeholder must be placed in the slide master footer. Here's how.
This is not working for me. I'm pulling my hair out trying to get the slide numbers to show correctly for the last 4 hours. Tried every combination I can find.
I struggled with this for almost 8 hours before I figured out everything that needed to be checked/set before the slide numbers would appear correctly in my published presenter. All other instructions I found on e-Learning Heroes didn't work for me. I created a guide for myself and my colleagues once I figured it out and tried it on 2 different presentations, and here are the steps.
1. Open presentation and click the View tab, then Slide Master
2. Make sure you select the 1st slide that appears in the Slide Master View and click the Master Layout button. This will ensure that you are adding a slide number to all layout slides below it.
3. Check the box for Slide number and click OK
4. Confirm that a Slide Number box with (#) has been added to the slide
5. Click the box and format that slide number box so that the font, size, color, etc. are correct. Also move the box to the location on the slide where you want the slide numbers to appear.
6. Click the 1st layout slide in the Slide Master View and check the Footers box
7. Confirm that the slide number box now appears on the 1st layout slide.
8. Repeat this for all other layout slides
9. Click Close Slide Master View to return to the presentation
10. Go to Insert and click Slide Number
11. Check the box for Slide Number. You will see the little black box appear on the Preview on the screen. Click Apply to All. If you do not want the slide number to show on the title slide, make sure the Don’t show on title slide box is checked.
12. Confirm that the slide numbers appear on the PowerPoint slides in Slideshow Mode and in Preview in Articulate
Alicia, you are my hero! This problem has been plaguing me forever, both in Studio and when importing PowerPoints to Storyline. Problem solved thanks to your great step by step instructions!
I noticed just now that the steps didn't work for the latest update of Studio 360.. I had to manually type the numbers for each slide......Let me know if anyone else faced this issue..
I just updated to Articulate 360 Update 15 yesterday and I was able to add in slide numbers using the "Insert" option on the slide master. What version of Powerpoint are you using?
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Hi Anthony!
I'm not seeing the same behavior on my end when I add the default slide numbers in PPT via Insert > Header and Footer.
Is this how you added yours?
What about a pptx file? My slide number is showing as 'Page <#> of 23' after publication. Prior to publication it shows at 'Page 1 of 23' however. Any development on this?
Hi Doug!
PowerPoint's slide number placeholder is supported in Articulate Presenter. For it to work properly in your published course, the slide number placeholder must be placed in the slide master footer. Here's how.
This is not working for me. I'm pulling my hair out trying to get the slide numbers to show correctly for the last 4 hours. Tried every combination I can find.
I struggled with this for almost 8 hours before I figured out everything that needed to be checked/set before the slide numbers would appear correctly in my published presenter. All other instructions I found on e-Learning Heroes didn't work for me. I created a guide for myself and my colleagues once I figured it out and tried it on 2 different presentations, and here are the steps.
1. Open presentation and click the View tab, then Slide Master
2. Make sure you select the 1st slide that appears in the Slide Master View and click the Master Layout button. This will ensure that you are adding a slide number to all layout slides below it.
3. Check the box for Slide number and click OK
4. Confirm that a Slide Number box with (#) has been added to the slide
5. Click the box and format that slide number box so that the font, size, color, etc. are correct. Also move the box to the location on the slide where you want the slide numbers to appear.
6. Click the 1st layout slide in the Slide Master View and check the Footers box
7. Confirm that the slide number box now appears on the 1st layout slide.
8. Repeat this for all other layout slides
9. Click Close Slide Master View to return to the presentation
10. Go to Insert and click Slide Number
11. Check the box for Slide Number. You will see the little black box appear on the Preview on the screen. Click Apply to All. If you do not want the slide number to show on the title slide, make sure the Don’t show on title slide box is checked.
12. Confirm that the slide numbers appear on the PowerPoint slides in Slideshow Mode and in Preview in Articulate
Hi Alicia,
Sorry we missed you last week but I'm glad to see that you were able to figure out a solution and I really appreciate you sharing it here.
Thank you so much Alicia Thibaudet. I too was frustrated with the slide number issue...but your steps helped a lot. Thank you once again.
Glad that this older post and Alicia's steps helped you out Hassy. Thanks for popping in to share.
Alicia, you are my hero! This problem has been plaguing me forever, both in Studio and when importing PowerPoints to Storyline. Problem solved thanks to your great step by step instructions!
So glad this was able to help you out as well. Thanks for popping in to share Monique.
Hi,
I noticed just now that the steps didn't work for the latest update of Studio 360.. I had to manually type the numbers for each slide......Let me know if anyone else faced this issue..
It had worked in an earlier version...
Hi Hassy,
I just updated to Articulate 360 Update 15 yesterday and I was able to add in slide numbers using the "Insert" option on the slide master. What version of Powerpoint are you using?
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