Powerpoint - Adding Header & Footer in Powerpoint

Microsoft Powerpoint - Basics

Part 21 - Adding Header & Footer in Powerpoint

PowerPoint offers the ability to add header and footers to the slides. While having footers in presentations would be logical, header may not be quite evident at first. Typically, the slide title would be the header in the main slide, however when it comes to printing out handouts a separate header would be quite useful.

Here are the steps to add header and footer information to slides

Step (1): In the Insert ribbon, click on Header & Footer menu item.

Step (2): The Header and Footer dialog has two tabs: Slide and Notes and Handouts

Step (3): You can add details to the slide footer from the Slide tab.

Slide Footer Options	Description
Date and time	Add date and time to the footer Specify the format of the date and time entered Setup the footer to update automatically or use a fixed number
Slide Number	Insert Slide number in the footer
Footer	Add designated text to the footer - a good example of this would be confidentiality clause or copyright clause
Don't show on title slide	Decide on whether the footer information should be displayed on the title slide or not

Step (4): You can add details to the handouts from the Notes and Handouts tab

Notes and Handouts Options	Description
Date and time	Add date and time to the footer Specify the format of the date and time entered Setup the footer to update automatically or use a fixed number
Header	Add header information for every page on the handout
Page Number	Insert page number in the footer
Footer	Add designated text to the footer - a good example of this would be confidentiality clause or copyright clause

When you check any of the header and footer checkboxes in either tabs, you can see the location where the detail would be inserted in the preview section.