How to add or edit a footer in your Microsoft PowerPoint slides for citations or notes

To edit the footer in your PowerPoint slides, you'll need to access the Header & Footer menu from the Insert tab.
With the "Header & Footer" tool, you can make your footer appear on just one slide, every slide in your presentation, or even every slide except the title slide.
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The ability to add footers in PowerPoint is useful for any number of reasons. You can use it to insert citations and references, notes about what you're saying, disclaimers, a company motto, or even a little joke if you want to make it a fun kind of slideshow.

Adding headers and footers to your PowerPoint slides is easy, even if they're not on the template. You can apply footers to a single slide or all your slides, and even exclude a footer from your title slide.

Just remember that any changes you make on an individual slide will only appear on the slide you make them on. If you want to change what the footers say on every slide, you will have to open the dialog box again.

Here's how to add and edit a footer to your PowerPoint slide.

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How to add and edit a footer in your PowerPoint slide

1. In the main PowerPoint toolbar, click on the Insert tab.

2. In the Text category of the ribbon, select Header & Footer.

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3. In the dialog box, check the box next to Header & Footer.

4. Enter the text that you'd like to appear in the footer in the text box underneath.

5. Once you're finished, click Apply to apply the footer only to the slide you're currently working on. You can also click Apply All if you want it to appear on all your slides.