making Table of Contents in Powerpoint

[glg1]

Hi all,
I've been hand generating table of contents for rapid navigation around powerpoint presentations for sometime now. I place them descretely hidden in corners of slides or as tabs on the side - so that when I need to move quickly to another slide out of order its easy. However, generating the TOCs is not easy... and Not fun.
Has anyone come across a way in PP or a macro to accomplish this automatically?

Gratefully,
George

 

[BlueHorizon]

Hi George,

Not sure what version of PPT you are using, but in newer verions, you can right click on any slide during a presentation and use the "Go to Slide" choice to move quickly around to any slide.

HTH,

Best,
Blue Horizon

http://www.bluehorizontraining.com

 

[glg1]

Thanks BlueHorizon, I 've used that in the past, but it gets a bit disruptive in presentations. Hence the discrete tabs or other visual aids - I find work the best (As one gets older, the memory isn't what it used to be).

My ultimate goal is to have a tree of prentations either on a single slide that is one click away from any presentation, something like:

Presentation1 -- slide TOC (divided by topic)
Presentation2 -- slide TOC (divided by topic)
etc.

In that manner - one can move between presentations as well. Not sure if this is possible without a lot of hand work, but getting the TOCs built automatically would be great. Then classifying by topic and having thumbnails would be the icing on the powerpoint cake...

George