Make sure this box is checked and it should bring up your slide numbers in all their collective glory! This will bring up a number of options, one of which… drum roll please… will be the option to add a slide number. So to fix this, we go back and open up the Slide Master from the View tab and select the main layout (you might have to scroll to the top to find it). Step two works for adding slide numbers if things have been deleted or moved (often by accident) from a particular template in your master, but sometimes there are page numbers missing across multiple layouts. Checking this should bring up a number of pre-programmed footers on your slide. If you are struggling to get slide numbers on this page it could be because the ‘Footers’ option isn’t checked. When you open up the Slide Master it will default onto the page layout for the page you we’re viewing in the normal view. For some reason of explicit wizardry, this option doesn’t work.

Once you’re in the Slide Master you’ll notice that you still have the Insert Slide Number option you did in the normal PowerPoint view. Navigate to the View tab, and then open the Slide Master. If step one didn’t work, let’s level up our slide number skills.

Method 2: How to add footers in the Slide Master The simplest way to add a slide number in PowerPoint is to navigate to the ‘Insert’ tab, and then click the icon to ‘Insert Slide Number’.Ĭlicking this option opens a pop-up where you check ‘Slide Number’ and then ‘Apply to all’ So if you’re at the end of your tether and you just can’t get those pesky numbers to show up on your slides, here’s how you can add slide numbers in PowerPoint in three ways.īefore we dig in with our first method, it’s worth saying I don’t know why using some of these options don’t work every time, but hopefully one of these ways will be the secret to magicking that oh-so elusive number on your slide, and save you the editability nightmare of adding them all in manually to a 207 slide deck. In fact PowerPoint provides a wealth of ways to add page numbers onto your slides however, some of these methods don’t always work. Adding slide numbers in PowerPoint, on the face of it, is pretty easy.

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