Adding Headers and Footers to Slides in PowerPoint

by rhyttinen on June 29, 2009

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Headers and footers are text that is displayed on the top or bottom of every page of your slides, notes or handouts. Headers and footers can consist of specific text, such as a company logo, the slide or page number, or a date. Headers will appear at the top of every printed page while footers will appear at the bottom of every printed page.

Slides can contain only footers whereas Notes and Handouts can contain both headers and footers. Headers and footers can be applied to a single selected slide or to all of the slides in your presentation.

By default, Notes and Handouts include page numbers, but you have the ability to turn these off. You might choose to include no headers and footers on your slides but instead to reserve them for notes and handouts for that presentation.

Header and Footer dialog box

Header and Footer dialog box

To Add a Footer to Slides

  1. Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon.
  2. Click the Header and Footer button on the Text group.
  3. Click the Slide tab.
  4. To add an automatically updating date and time, click Update automatically under the Date and time area, and then select the desired date and time format from the drop-down list. To add a date and time that does not change, click Fixed, and type a date and time.
  5. To display slide numbers on your slides, click the Slide Number check box.
  6. To add custom text to your footer, click the Footer check box and then type your text in the text box.
  7. To omit the footer from the first slide in your presentation, check the Don’t Show on Title Slide checkbox.
  8. To add the information to the selected slide, click Apply. To add the information to every slide in the presentation, click Apply to All.

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