Microsoft PowerPoint 2013: Reverse Slide Numbering - Possible?

[beadedbytes]

Is there a way to number the slides in reverse order in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013?

I have a document that currently has 10 slide (pages) and the number of slides(pages) will grow over several months.

We always want the current information to be at the front of the document instead of adding to the end. Ideally, slide 10 would actually be numbered as slide 1, current slide 9 as slide 2, etc.

This way, as new slides are added to the document, the pre-existing slides will have page numbers that will not change over time.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[SkipVought]

Are you saying that slide 10 contains some sort of summary information that will not change over time?

I'm having a difficult time imagining such a situation requiring this kind of numbering.

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[ajh1]

Why number them at all, at least from a display perspective? If the numbers only appear to you as the creator and don't show on the screen when you display them who really cares what number sequence exists.

 

[MakeItSo]

This way, as new slides are added to the document, the pre-existing slides will have page numbers that will not change over time.

Ummmm, no. Quite in the contrary. If you add a slide, the eleventh slide will be number 1, the 10th slide, previously num,ber 1 will now be number 2. And the numbers of ALL pre-existing slides will alter too.
You sure you want this?

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[mintjulep]

Seems to be no way to do this with native functionality.

It could certainly be accomplished with VBA, although it would take a bit of time to figure out.

Probably easiest approach is to simply do it manually each time you add a slide.

 

[combo]

10 slides + new within few months, we always want the current information to be at the front of the document. Stupid question, but why not write page numbers manually, after adding each slide?

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[MakeItSo]

Another stupid approach:
forget about slide numbers. Write a quick Autpen macro so that the PPT always automatically jumps to the last slide on opening...

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