Formatting text in the Notes Pane

Question

Does anyone know if there is a way to format the text in the
Notes Pane window?

Answer 1

Depending on which version of the plug-in you have, there are
a couple of directions you can take:
With Presenter 6.x, you can incorporate bolding and
italicizing of your notes while authoring in PowerPoint. As far as
I know (at least having tested this with Presenter 6.0 on a Vista
machine running PowerPoint 2007), you still can't format notes
beyond the simple application of bolding or italicizing...meaning
that you can't style your notes with color, etc.
With Breeze 5.x, this gets a bit stickier, and without
getting too far down "into the weeds on this", text formatting in
the notes panel will most likely depend on which version of Breeze
you're using. Generally speaking, however, in order to see any kind
of formatting displayed in the Notes panel of a presentation means
that you have to alter a line of code in the viewer.xml document
that's created once you publish your deck....and here's how:
1. Go ahead and add bold and italics treatment as
necessary...and then publish your deck--for this procedure, the
premise is that you're publishing locally to your computer.
2. Navigate to the Data directory of the published
presentation.
3. Within the Data directory, you need to find and then open
the viewer.xml document. I'd recommend that you right-click it and
use Notepad to open the xml doc.
4. Now, when you're in Notepad, you can use Notepad's Find
and Replace feature to make the next series of steps much easier to
deal with. From the main menu in Notepad, click on Edit, and then
trace down and select "Replace..." or hit Control-H.
5. When the Find & Replace dialog box appears, in the
"Find what" field, type:
isHTML="false"
and in the "Replace with" field type:
isHTML="true"
6. Save and close down the viewer.xml doc
7. Now, if you re-run the course, any instance of formatting
that you created while in PowerPoint *should* appear in the Notes
panel of the Breeze/Presenter presentation.
Again, the ability to format text in the notes region is
still very much limited. And without specfically knowing which
version you're using, the above represents a basic guideline to
having simple formatting show up on a published presentation. IF
you're using an earlier version (ex: Breeze 4.0/5.0), then let me
know, because there are other steps you can take to ensure that
bolded or italicized text appears in the Notes tab.
Hope that helps!
Rob
Check out my forum for Breeze/Presenter at:
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