PowerPoint 2016 - Do not enumerate hidden slides

Question

I have hidden slides in my presentation, but the problem is that when I generate the PDF or I use the presentation mode of the PowerPoint, it enumerates the hidden slides and then, for instance, you jump from slide 37 to slide 39.

Is it possible to remove automatically the enumeration of hidden slides?

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 13 '22 at 10:35

As Steve Rindsberg said, you may use such a VBA macro as found here: VBA : Number the slide if they are visible

The necessary steps for me were

saving the presentation in with-macros-format (as a file with dot-pptm ending)
pressing Alt + F11 (or on mac hit menu Tools → Macros → Visual Basic Editor)
entering the code from aforementioned Stack Overflow answer
pressing either F5 or the green run arrow

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 11 '22 at 17:37

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You'd need to create the slide numbers yourself (or by using a bit of VBA) rather than using PowerPoint's own slide numbering.

edited Feb 11 '22 at 17:37

Tim

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answered Feb 01 '17 at 17:18

Steve Rindsberg

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score -2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 25 '17 at 16:15

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You can also create a custom Slide Show. Which will allow you to pick and choose which slides (from your existing presentation) you would like to use. Then from this new presentation you can create your pdf.

answered Apr 25 '17 at 16:15

Taylor Ehlert

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score -3 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 13 '22 at 10:42

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You can simply create a new section (Home- section) and put your hidden slides there. Then numbering will not include your hidden slides.

edited Feb 13 '22 at 10:42

Peter Mortensen

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answered Sep 19 '18 at 05:42

Ali

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PowerPoint 2016 - Do not enumerate hidden slides

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