Slide page numbers and section labels

The footer is a theme band, not a text box

It is a 106 pixel strip at the bottom of the 1080 pixel canvas, with a hairline rule across the top, a small brand dot and the section label on the left, and the page number anchored right. It comes from the theme rather than from the layout, so every slide that has one has an identical footer, and swapping the theme restyles all of them together.

Page numbers are automatic and zero padded

You never type one. The number is the slide's position in the deck, so inserting a slide at position three renumbers everything after it with no action from you. It renders zero padded, so slide 4 of 16 shows as 04. That padding is a small typographic decision that stops the number changing width between 9 and 10 and pulling the eye.

Section labels come from the layout, and you should change them

Each layout carries a default label naming what it is: Framework, Comparison, Context, Metrics, Timeline, Agenda. There are 95 distinct defaults across the catalogue. Those are honest but generic, and the label is far more useful when it names your section instead. Click it on the slide and type. That override is stored on the slide and persists, and clearing the text leaves it deliberately blank.

33 layouts have no footer at all

320 of the 353 designs opt into the theme footer. The rest are covers, full bleed dividers and closing slides, where a page number would sit on top of the artwork and a section label would state the obvious. So a deck's numbering skips its cover, which is what most people would do by hand anyway.

The two hide toggles only affect the editor

There are deck-wide switches for the page number and the section label in the slide defaults panel, and they are worth understanding before you rely on them. They change what you see on the editor canvas and in the rail thumbnails, and nothing else. They are not written to the deck, so they reset when you reload, and present mode, the exports and the shared link all use the defaults regardless: page number shown, section label hidden.

How it works, in three steps

1. Step 1

   Click the label on the slide

   Bottom left, beside the small brand dot. Type your own section name over the layout's default.

2. Step 2

   Leave the numbering alone

   It follows the slide's position automatically and renumbers itself when you reorder or insert.

3. Step 3

   Check a cover and a divider

   Those layouts have no footer by design, so the numbering visibly starts on your first content slide.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Change your presentation's theme, fonts and colours.

Limits worth knowing

• The deck-wide hide toggles for the page number and section label affect the editor canvas only. They are not saved and do not change present mode, exports or the shared link.
• Page numbers cannot be started at a different value, offset, or formatted differently. They are the slide position, zero padded.
• The footer's position and height come from the theme and cannot be moved.
• 33 of the 353 layouts carry no footer, so those slides show neither a number nor a label.

See it on a finished piece

Training and onboarding presentation

9 slides

Company profile presentation

10 slides

Quarterly business review deck

10 slides

Questions people ask

Related pages