Generating a table of contents for printed version of Powerpoint presentation

Is it possible to somehow automatically generate a Table of Contents (silmilar to what's used in manuals) of a Powerpoint presentation, so that when I print the presentation, the reader can use the Table of Contents to figure out which page a particular slide is on.

I tried saving the presentation as an Outline (.rtf) but that only includes the main headings, not the page numbers.

I don't want to have to manually create a table of contents because the presentation is quite large (200 pgs), and would require a lot fo manual maintenance to keep the TOC up-to-date.

Can anyone help me out???

Hi,
I hope I'm proved wrong by some powerpoint wizard here. But I've also wanted to do this and I've never been able to find away. So I don't think it can be done.

I'm afraid that I've not been able to find one. You just have to type them in. There is ino equivalent to the Microsoft Word table of contents.

Once you have typed them in, you could try hyperlinking the contents. One of the nice things that PowerPoint does is to automatically adust the hyperlinks to if you add or delete pages in the presentation.

You could also suggest to Microsoft that they include this functionality in a future release, but you may have a bit of a wait.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/su...ename=0&Type=2

Print the presentation in "Outline" if you want a simple list of page titles with relevant slide number beside them. You'll find this option in the print dialogue box where it normally says "Slides". If you can print this to something like Microsoft Office Document Image Writer instead of a normal printer, you can then convert it to a word document. If you've got this software, it'll appear under your list of printers. This process should take all of a minute. The resultant text will then need some basic formatting.

Hi,

We have made an add-in that creates Table of Contents slides on PowerPoint presentantions.

You might want to give it a try. The add-in is called PowerTOC