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How to add slide numbers in powerpoint.

If you want to keep track of your PowerPoint presentation slides, you could think about adding page numbers. Here's how.

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When you're presenting a PowerPoint presentation, it can be easy to lose track of what slide you're currently on---especially if it's a large one. To help, you can add slide numbers in PowerPoint to know your position.

You could, of course, add slide numbers manually to each of your slides using text boxes. This isn't an option we'd recommend because any changes you make (for instance, by adding new slides) would require you to update your slide numbers manually, too.

Instead, you can add slide numbers that update automatically on all of your slides, including any hidden slides. By default, these slide numbers will appear in your slide footer, but you can move and format your slide numbers by editing the "Slide Master" for your presentation.

To add slide numbers, open a PowerPoint presentation with several slides added and then click the "Insert" tab.

From here, you'll need to select the "Header & Footer" button in the "Text" section.

This will bring up the "Header and Footer" options box. To add slide numbers to your PowerPoint slides, click the "Slide Number" checkbox in the "Slides" tab.

Press the "Apply to All" button to add slide numbers to all of your slides.

Once applied, your slide numbers will appear on each of your slides in the bottom-right corner. If you've split your PowerPoint presentation into sections, you'll need to repeat this action for each section.

To  remove slide numbers from a PowerPoint presentation , you can follow similar steps to those shown above.

Related: How to Remove Slide Numbers from PowerPoint Slides

Press Insert > Header & Footer to bring up the PowerPoint header and footer options. In the "Header and Footer" box, uncheck the "Slide number" checkbox option.

You can remove the page number from only the currently selected slide by clicking "Apply" or to all of your slides by clicking the "Apply to All" button instead.

You can format your slide numbers using the PowerPoint Slide Master  to make them appear in a different font, size, color, or position.

Related: How to Create a Slide Master in Microsoft PowerPoint

To do this, click View > Slide Master from the ribbon bar.

This will load the Slide Master editing screen. You'll see the current position of your page number as a text box in the bottom-right section of the slide.

You can move the text box to another position to move your slide number across all of your slides.

To edit the text formatting of the slide number, select the text box and then select the "Home" tab on the ribbon bar.

You can then edit the text formatting options using the available options in the "Font" and "Paragraph" sections.

For instance, pressing the "Bold" button will make the slide numbers appear in bold across all slides.

Once you've formatted your slide numbers, return to the "Slide Master" tab on the ribbon bar and then select the "Close Master View" button.

Your slide numbers will update with new formatting across all of your slides, depending on the changes you made.

Add page numbers, date and time, or footer text to all slides in PowerPoint for Mac

You can add standard footer elements that will appear on all the slides in your presentation. For example, you can add the date and time, the name of the presentation, or the page number.

Note:  PowerPoint doesn't support headers on slides. However, you can add both a header and footer to your handouts .

Add page numbers to slides and notes

When you add slide numbers, all slides are included in the slide count, including hidden slides. If you print notes, page numbers are included.

Note:  The only way to exclude hidden slides from the count is to manually number each visible slide. Add a text box to each slide and then add the page numbers to each text box.

In the Header and Footer box, on the Slide tab, select the Slide number check box, and then in the Starts at box, type the page number that you want to start with on the first slide.

Click Apply to All .

Add footer text

In the Header and Footer box, on the Slide tab, select the Footer check box, and then type the footer text that you want.

Add the date and time

In the Header and Footer box, on the Slide tab, select the Date and time check box.

Do one of the following:

Note:  For more control over placement and style of presentation footers, you can edit their placeholders in the slide master. foot

If footers don't appear on slides

If footers don't appear on title slides, in the Header and Footer box, make sure the Don't show on title slide check box is not selected.

If the footers are missing from other slides, the placeholders for these items might have been removed from specific slide layouts or the slide master.

Add text to a slide

Add or remove placeholders from a slide layout

Modify a slide master

Add a logo, company name, or header or footer text to handouts

Add or remove a footnote

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How to Add Page Numbers in PowerPoint

Adding slide numbers is a good way to know how many slides are left before reaching the end of the presentation. In this new Slidesgo School tutorial, you’ll learn how to enable slide numbering step by step.

Adding Slide Numbers

Editing slide numbers, enabling slide numbers in our templates.

• Open your presentation in PowerPoint.
• Go to the Insert tab.
• In the Text group, click Header & Footer. A new window will open.
• Header & Footer buttonCheck “Slide number” to enable it. You’ll see a little box highlighted in black on the preview.
• If you don’t want to apply slide numbering or any other header or footer element to the title slide, check “Don’t show on title slide”.
• Once done, to apply these changes only to the selected slide, click Apply. If you want to apply the changes to all the slides, click Apply to All (the title slide will be skipped if you’ve checked “Don’t show on title slide”).
• Now you can edit the style of the slide numbers to adapt it to your needs.
• Some of our templates might require a different procedure in order to add slide numbering. We recommend that you read the last section of this tutorial.
• Run PowerPoint and open the presentation in which the slide numbers are enabled.
• If you want to edit the style of the text, you can do so in each individual slide. In fact, you can adjust the size, color, font, position, etc.
• If you want to adjust these parameters for all the slides at once, you need to do so in the slide master. Go to the View tab and, in the Master Views group, click Slide Master.
• Select the slide master (the first one, which acts as the parent slide). Then, click the slide number box, which is the one that contains the text “<#>”.
• Make any adjustments until you’re happy with the results. If you need to modify anything related to the typography, you’ll find the relevant options on the Home tab. To modify anything related to the text box, go to the Shape Format tab. You can also move the text box around to change its position.
• Once you’re done, go to the Slide Master tab and click Close Master View. The changes will be applied to all the slides.
• Please note that if you make any adjustment on any slide, it will be overridden by any further modification made on the slide master.
• Open our template in PowerPoint.
• Go to the View tab and, in the Master Views group, click Slide Master.
• Select the slide master (the first one, which acts as the parent slide).
• Go to the Slide Master tab and, in the Master Layout group, click Master Layout. A new window will open.
• Check “Slide numbers” and click OK. A text box will appear at the bottom-right corner with the text “<#>”.
• For this box to appear in all the slides, make sure you check “Footers”, located in the Master Layout group, on the Slide Master tab. This box needs to be checked for all the layout masters (please note that selecting multiple layout masters at the same time and checking this box doesn’t work as intended, since the change will be applied only to the current layout master).
• Now you can enable slide numbers as explained in the first section of this tutorial.

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