Why would Summary Slide be disabled for certain slide?

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gerry_barnett - 22 Nov 2005 16:49 GMT

The Summary Slide button is disabled when one particular slide is selected.
Even if everything is deleted from the slide the Summary Slide button is
still disabled if that slide is included in the selected slides. I could
delete the slide and start over, but it would be nice to know what happened.

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Kathy Jacobs - 22 Nov 2005 16:59 GMT

Summary Slide only works if all the selected slides have titles. Does the
slide in question have one? If you don't want the title to show, you can
drag the title placeholder off the slide onto the grey area around the
slide.

In addition, if your slide title has certain punctuation marks in it, they
may be causing the problem.

Do either of these problems sound like they might apply to the problem
slide?

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> The Summary Slide button is disabled when one particular slide is
> selected.
> Even if everything is deleted from the slide the Summary Slide button is
> still disabled if that slide is included in the selected slides. I could
> delete the slide and start over, but it would be nice to know what
> happened.

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gerry_barnett - 22 Nov 2005 17:30 GMT

Hi Kathy,

Thanks for your idea about the title. I am not sure what your definition of
title is. If you mean a title that shows up in the Outline, then the answer
is Yes the slide does have a title. If you mean by title that the slide
master for the slide has a title place holder then the answer is no.
However, other slides in the same presentation use the same slide master and
even if I delete the item that shows up in the Outline as a "title" for those
slides the Summary Slide button is still enabled for those slides.

I'm new enough to PowerPoint to be confused by some of the termonology.

Gerry Barnett

> Summary Slide only works if all the selected slides have titles. Does the
> slide in question have one? If you don't want the title to show, you can
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> > delete the slide and start over, but it would be nice to know what
> > happened.

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Kathy Jacobs - 22 Nov 2005 17:44 GMT

In terms of a summary slide, a title is the text that shows in the title
placeholder - the "Click to add title" at the very top of the page. If you
are using a slide layout that doesn't have a title placeholder, then summary
slide shouldn't work with that slide.

Do me a favor... Open the presentation and look at the slide that doesn't
work. Select the text and cut it. Does it get replaced by the words "Click
to add title"? If so, the slide has a title. If not, it doesn't.

If it does, reply to this post and paste in what was in the title. That will
help us all track down what is going on. It would also help to know which
version of PPT you are using....

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> Hi Kathy,
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>> > delete the slide and start over, but it would be nice to know what
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gerry_barnett - 22 Nov 2005 18:00 GMT

Kathy,

Thanks for the clarification. My perspective at this point is that a slide
does not necessarily need a title, but it needs a title placeholder in order
for the Summary Slide Button process to accept it. As I looked further I
realized that my student had deleted the title placeholder from the slide. I
suspect PowerPoint has no way to reinstate a title placeholder. It is simple
enough to start over with the slide.

FYI: We are using PowerPoint 2003.

Thanks for you help.

Gerry Barnett

> In terms of a summary slide, a title is the text that shows in the title
> placeholder - the "Click to add title" at the very top of the page. If you
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> >> > delete the slide and start over, but it would be nice to know what
> >> > happened.

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tohlz - 22 Nov 2005 18:16 GMT

Go to any of the slides, right click on the placeholder and click copy. Go
back to that slide and paste the placeholder. To ensure that the placeholder
has been reinstated, try deleting the title now. You should see "Click to add
Title" now.

Is that what you want?

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> Kathy,
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Kathy Jacobs - 22 Nov 2005 18:51 GMT

This won't usually work. What always works is to bring up the Slide Layout
task pane and either re-apply the current layout or apply any layout with a
title placeholder.

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> Go to any of the slides, right click on the placeholder and click copy. Go
> back to that slide and paste the placeholder. To ensure that the
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>> > >> > delete the slide and start over, but it would be nice to know what
>> > >> > happened.

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