Microsoft KB Archive/62745

PowerPoint 2.00 Help: Slide Numbers, Date, and Time PSS ID Number: Q62745 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

The information below is taken from the Microsoft PowerPoint Version 2.00 Help file for Slide Numbers, Date, and Time.

There are three special codes or “metacharacters” that are used to apply the slide numbers, date, and time to a presentation:

Slide Number ## (pound pound) - also page numbers

Date // (slash slash)

Time :: (colon colon)

On the Slide Master, Notes Master, or Handout Page, create a label or word processing object containing any of the codes. When you print the presentation, PowerPoint substitutes the date and time of the printing for the // and :: respectively. On the slide and notes page, the ## is the slide number. On the handout page (which has more than one slide on it) the ## is the page number of that handout page.

The date and time are used to help you keep track of drafts. Their codes are usually removed before final printing.

For more information about this topic, refer to Page 119 of your “Microsoft PowerPoint User’s Guide.”

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.