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Adding a slide counter

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Adding a slide counter

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- [Instructor] Here's an easy way to display a slide count to keep your audience informed about where they are in your training. The format we'll build will show the slide number the user is on out of the total number of slides. To start, insert a new text caption, we'll move it to the lower right of the screen. Delete the default text out of the caption. In the Properties panel, click the Insert Variable icon, it looks like an x in between two square brackets. In the resulting window, click the Variable Type drop down and select System. Now open the Variables drop down, scroll down and select cpinfoCurrentSlide, click OK. The text that appears may look strange, but when you preview the project, it will display the current slide number. Now we'll insert a different second variable that will display the total number of slides. After the last dollar sign type a forward slash. Keep the cursor placed after the…

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