Headers and Footers now selectable in PPT 2007

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rick - 04 Nov 2007 16:20 GMT

Its seems that in PPT 2007 that the slide#, footer and date are selecetable
on the slide.

The problem with this is that they get inadvertently selected when trying to
select other objects on a slide and then they get moved around.

Didn't used to be this way.

Is there any setting to make it not selectabel just like the rest of the
background is not selectable?

Or, am I doing something wrong?

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Luc - 04 Nov 2007 18:32 GMT

Rick,
Sorry to be the deliverer of bad news, but I know of no way to change that.
Hope someone will prove me wrong.

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Luc Sanders
MVP - PowerPoint

> Its seems that in PPT 2007 that the slide#, footer and date are
> selecetable
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> Or, am I doing something wrong?

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Michael Koerner - 04 Nov 2007 20:04 GMT

I agree with Luc.

What I have been doing, after I have created my footer, I turn off footers and slide numbering until after I'm finished editing all my slides. When I'm ready to show the presentation, I turn those features back on.

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Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint

Rick,
Sorry to be the deliverer of bad news, but I know of no way to change that.
Hope someone will prove me wrong.

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Luc Sanders
MVP - PowerPoint
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> Its seems that in PPT 2007 that the slide#, footer and date are
> selecetable
> on the slide.
>
> The problem with this is that they get inadvertently selected when trying
> to
> select other objects on a slide and then they get moved around.
>
> Didn't used to be this way.
>
> Is there any setting to make it not selectabel just like the rest of the
> background is not selectable?
>
> Or, am I doing something wrong?

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rick - 15 Nov 2007 07:15 GMT

Does anyone know why this was changed?

Its seems to be add no advantage and it makes the whole nevironment clumsier?

Any hope of chnaging it back?

> I agree with Luc.
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> > Or, am I doing something wrong?

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Steve Rindsberg - 15 Nov 2007 22:43 GMT

> Does anyone know why this was changed?
>
> Its seems to be add no advantage and it makes the whole nevironment clumsier?
>
> Any hope of chnaging it back?

Probably not.

But you can insert a plain text box on the master or individual slide layouts in master view and
then use Insert, Slide Nubmer or Date to create what amounts to your own footer, but one that's not
selectable on slides.

> > I agree with Luc.
> >
> > What I have been doing, after I have created my footer, I turn off footers and slide numbering until after I'm finished editing all my slides. When I'm ready to show the presentation, I turn

those features back on.

> > Rick,
> > Sorry to be the deliverer of bad news, but I know of no way to change that.
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> > >
> > > Or, am I doing something wrong?

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rick - 16 Nov 2007 17:32 GMT

YAHOO!!! Exactly what I was looking for. thanks a bunch.

MSoft ought to do an apps note and let their support people know of this as
a workaround.

> > Does anyone know why this was changed?
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Steve Rindsberg - 17 Nov 2007 22:30 GMT

> YAHOO!!! Exactly what I was looking for. thanks a bunch.

Any time. Just remember to insert a number instead of a nubmer as suggested below.
I don't know WHAT that fool was thinking when he wrote that. <g>

> MSoft ought to do an apps note and let their support people know of this as
> a workaround.

Then we'd be out of a (volunteer) job. I'd hate to think what might happen if you turned 30 marauding
PPT geeks loose on the streets of an unsuspect....

Oh. Wait. They just did that. Bourbon Street. New Orleans.
Tamed it down a bit, if anything.

Nevermind. <g>

> > > Does anyone know why this was changed?
> > >
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> > PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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