How to hide slide numbers on PowerPoint Title Slide?

Want to hide the page or slide number on your PowerPoint Title slide, but display slide numbers on the rest of the slides in your PowerPoint presentation? If your PowerPoint presentation has slide numbers applied to the slides, you may want to hide these from appearing on your presentations Title Slide.

Here’s how to hide or remove slide numbers from the Title Slide of a PowerPoint presentation that has slide numbering applied.

1. From the PowerPoint ‘Insert’ tab, select ‘Slide Number’

2. Open the PowerPoint > Insert > Header and Footer dialogue box. Click the ‘Slide’ tab and check the ‘Don’t show on title slide’ check box. Then click ‘Apply to All’

3. Your PowerPoint Slide numbers are now hidden from any Title Slide layouts in the PowerPoint presentation, but will remain visible on other content slides.

Alternatively, you can also use PPT Productivity ‘Slide Number and Slide Totals’ feature to hide slide numbering on Title Slides in PowerPoint presentations. PPT Productivity is a timesaving plugin for PowerPoint that makes it e

How to hide slide numbers on PowerPoint Title Slides using PPT Productivity's Slide Number & Slide Totals feature

To remove/ hide slide numbers from PowerPoint Title Slide layouts using PPT Productivity, access the ‘Slide Number and Slide Totals’ tools via the PowerPoint > Insert tab.

Or via the ‘Footer’ suite on the PPT Productivity tab on the PowerPoint Ribbon.

1. From the ‘Slide Numbers and Slide Totals’ menu, uncheck the ‘Show on Title Slides’ check box and click ‘Apply All’.

2. PowerPoint Slide numbers on Title Slides layouts will now be hidden, but slide numbering will remain visible on content slides.

How to show slide numbering to PowerPoint Title Slide layouts?

If you have hidden slide numbers on PowerPoint Title slides but want to reverse this, you can make slide numbering visible on PowerPoint Title Slides by following the same steps above but toggling the checkbox. Open the ‘Slide Numbers and Slide Totals’ menu from the PPT Productivity tab or from the Insert tab, then re-check the ‘Show on Title Slides’ check box, hit ‘Apply All’. Slide numbers will now be visible on your PowerPoint Title Slide layouts in addition to your content slides.

PowerPoint slide numbers not showing? How to display slide numbers on PowerPoint presentations with slide numbering applied?

If your PowerPoint presentation has slide numbering applied but slide numbers are not appearing on one or more content slides within your presentation, see our post Troubleshooting PowerPoint Slide Numbering: Common Slide numbering issues and how to fix them for further guidance.

To learn more about the PPT Productivity Slide Numbers and Slide Totals tool visit out Slide Numbering feature page.