PowerPoint Table of Contents
The table of contents is a special template type that defines the visual design of a presentation's automatically generated table of contents.
Creating
- Activate the administration view and select «New Template».
- Give the table of contents a name and select «PowerPoint Table of Contents» (Microsoft PowerPoint category).
- Set the «Based on» field to the corresponding Master template.
- Open the editor, insert your agenda slide and delete all content placeholders except the slide title.
Defining the agenda shapes
Insert four shapes and format them according to your corporate design:
- a shape for the entry (title),
- a shape for the page number,
- a shape that determines the gap between entries,
- a shape for the height range that marks the available vertical space (see below).
So that primedocs can work with these shapes, assign each shape its function: select the shape, then click the matching button on the primedocs tab, group Templating (see Ribbon groups for template editing).
| Shape | Button |
|---|---|
| Entry shape | Define ToC titles |
| Page number | Define ToC slide numbers |
| Gap between entries | Define ToC gap |
| Height range (highlighted grey) | Define ToC height range |
These four buttons are enabled only in a table of contents template. In every other PowerPoint template type they stay greyed out.
The height range defines the available vertical space: as soon as the table of contents grows beyond the defined area, primedocs automatically creates a new slide on which the table of contents continues.
Finally, before saving the template, set all agenda shapes to «No fill» (tab Shape Format → Fill → No Fill).