Re: How do you activate the commentaries at the bottom of each page of a presentation

Use View | Notes Page to get to that window at the bottom. There's a text placeholder in that Notes View which shows the text that you see in the pane below the slide when you're in Normal (editing) View.

If you need to change the notes for individual slides, you must do it pane-by-pane (in Normal View) or page-by-page (in Notes View).

But if you need to change it (or add something) to ALL slides' notes pages, then do it in the Notes Master View (View | Master | Notes Master). But this only works for graphics, and it doesn't show up on the notes in the notes pane (in Normal View). If you type something in the placeholder where it says "Click to edit Master Text styles," what you type won't show up in the individual slide notes pane in Normal View. That placeholder is only for specifying the text formatting (and that formatting only shows up when the user prints Notes Pages or views Notes Pages -- the formatting doesn't show up in that notes pane in Normal View), it's not for adding bits of text. That's the reason we keep asking exactly what you need to do. If you need some text to appear on all slides in that notes pane (in Normal View), then you have to add it with a VBA macro -- and if there's existing text in the notes already, then it may overwrite it. That can be accounted for, but without knowing, you run the risk of the macro trashing all the existing text.

To open that extra pane at the bottom of each slide, just drag the edge of the pane. See http://screencast.com/t/0gYP3GSZ3W

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"Dave Neve" <neve.dave@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:es00w$fAJHA.5884@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi

I'm doing my best but I just can't seem to get it

Yes, I received 40 Powerpoint presentations to translate

I open them and simply type in English over the French

There has never been an invitation to revise

Most of them have this extra window at the bottom and I can get into that but only one window at a time

Others don't even have the extra window at the bottom and I don't know how to add it.

I've tried following your instructions but it doesn't seem to work or I still perhaps don't understand

I'll have to find someone at this end

I wrote to this group cos I'm actually English but live in France

Thanks anyway

Dave Neve


"Luc" <luc.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news: efb36zdAJHA.1940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dave,
First
I see Steve Rindsberg has offered to help you in a previous thread. You have not quite answered his questions. If I understand correctly you want the same text to appear in the notes window beneath each slide in edit mode? Then you could go to the Notes master, type some text in the footer placeholder and drag it into the notes box at the appropriate spot. To get to the notes master, choose View - Master - Notes master. In French that would be, Affichage - Masque - Masque de commentaires.
Second.
I'm guessing here, have you received a presentation to revise via e-mail. If you open the presentation do you get a message asking if you want to revise? The only way you can add comments like you describe is when you revise (little yellow cards), there should be a toolbar where you can accept, decline changes or add comments. Is that the case?
Third
You say the software is in French, are you a Frenchman? Then I would suggest posting in the French newsgroup.
microsoft.public.fr.powerpoint



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"Dave Neve" <neve.dave@xxxxxxx> schreef in bericht news:eGgMoocAJHA.4064@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello

I've already asked this but there seems to be a misunderstanding so I'm starting again

I have some Powerpoint presentations that I have to translate and standardize

Some of them have a 'second window' at the bottom of each page. You can 'change' the size of this window and add comments

I thought that the 'add commentaries' button would create this second window but it doesn't (it adds little yellow cards to the presentation instead on the main page)

So I still need to know how to open the second window at the bottom of the page

I'd also like to know if there is a way of adding the same text to this second window at the bottom of the page on every single page without opening every single page to do it manually

Hope this now makes sense and sorry if my jargon is not quite right but my system is in French and I can only guess the terms on an English version

Regards

Dave Neve





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