KC,
Yes, that's pretty much it, nothing you can do about it. The advantage is
that you have better control over slide numbers. You can move them, delete
them or put them in front of pictures.

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Luc Sanders
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> pp 2007 seems to place a slide number placeholder in the bottom right of
> every new slide...
>
> even if it is removed from the master ???