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From: Beth Swathmore on 9 Feb 2010 09:51
Hello,

Most of what's built into PowerPoint 2007 I don't need, but what I do REALLY
REALLY need is the ability to have multiple pages of notes for each slide.
Is there any way to get this without the ridiculous "hide slide" trick?

In short, I want to start writing notes for a slide and have the notes
continue for 2-10 pages, if necessary, without having to worry about font
size formatting, page breaks, cutting-and-pasting from one slide to the
next, etc. (I can't be the only person who has ever requested this! -- Hey
Microsoft! Instead of adding more obscure exotic junk I don't need in
PowerPoint 2010, why don't you add multiple notes pages!!!!)

If this is possible already and I'm just being stupid, I will happily admit
my stupidity... Or if I can do this in Word and then export all the slides
from Word into a slide deck --with or without notes-- that would be fine too
(but syncing between Word and PowerPoint has never worked reliably for me).

Many thanks in advance,
Beth



From: John Wilson john AT technologytrish.co DOT on 9 Feb 2010 11:19
I believe 2010 beta does do multiple notes pages.
but I could be wrong

You might like to try our AddIn (free) supertypist that basically neatly
types out your notes in Word for you. No slide images - just the notes

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/PPT2WORD.html
scroll down a bit for the AddIn



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"Beth Swathmore" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Most of what's built into PowerPoint 2007 I don't need, but what I do REALLY
> REALLY need is the ability to have multiple pages of notes for each slide.
> Is there any way to get this without the ridiculous "hide slide" trick?
>
> In short, I want to start writing notes for a slide and have the notes
> continue for 2-10 pages, if necessary, without having to worry about font
> size formatting, page breaks, cutting-and-pasting from one slide to the
> next, etc. (I can't be the only person who has ever requested this! -- Hey
> Microsoft! Instead of adding more obscure exotic junk I don't need in
> PowerPoint 2010, why don't you add multiple notes pages!!!!)
>
> If this is possible already and I'm just being stupid, I will happily admit
> my stupidity... Or if I can do this in Word and then export all the slides
> from Word into a slide deck --with or without notes-- that would be fine too
> (but syncing between Word and PowerPoint has never worked reliably for me).
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Beth
>
>
>
> .
>
From: Steve Rindsberg on 9 Feb 2010 11:54
In article <e2fxxdZqKHA.4604(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Beth Swathmore wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Most of what's built into PowerPoint 2007 I don't need, but what I do REALLY
> REALLY need is the ability to have multiple pages of notes for each slide.
> Is there any way to get this without the ridiculous "hide slide" trick?

There are other dodges, but without trickery or add-ins, no, there's no way to
do what you want.

> In short, I want to start writing notes for a slide and have the notes
> continue for 2-10 pages, if necessary, without having to worry about font
> size formatting, page breaks, cutting-and-pasting from one slide to the
> next, etc. (I can't be the only person who has ever requested this! -- Hey
> Microsoft! Instead of adding more obscure exotic junk I don't need in
> PowerPoint 2010, why don't you add multiple notes pages!!!!)

MS tends to ask "How high?" when a few million people tell it which way to jump
with new features. Unfortunately for you, not many people have need of
multiple notes pages, so we don't have that feature.

> If this is possible already and I'm just being stupid, I will happily admit
> my stupidity... Or if I can do this in Word and then export all the slides
> from Word into a slide deck --with or without notes-- that would be fine too
> (but syncing between Word and PowerPoint has never worked reliably for me).

I was going to suggest something along those lines, but it'd be something of a
manual process that wouldn't synch very well.



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From: Beth Swathmore on 9 Feb 2010 12:06
> Actually, this is a feature in PPT 2010.

LOL! My apologies to Microsoft, I was cursing them again as I wrote my
question.... :-)

I haven't been able to find a URL reference about this yet, but I suppose I
can just wait for the final release (or get the beta).

Thanks!






From: Steve Rindsberg on 9 Feb 2010 15:07
In article <uHnhmLaqKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, Echo S wrote:
> Actually, this is a feature in PPT 2010.

Naturally ... I saw that right after posting my other reply.

So it seems a sufficient number of millions DID ask for the feature.

Nice!

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