Selection of note displays wrong note.

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shilliard
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Selection of note displays wrong note.

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I experience this error and it is repeatable:

1 Open an existing presentation.
(Slide 1 is automatically displayed.)

2 Select slide 2.
(Slide 2 is displayed.)

3 Select the notes tab.
(Slide 1 notes is displayed.)

Step 2 can be any slide other than slide 1.
Do other people experience this error?
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RoryOF
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Re: Selection of note displays wrong note.

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It does that. Now just click on your desired slide and you will see the notes for that displayed.
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Re: Selection of note displays wrong note.

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RoryOF wrote:It does that. Now just click on your desired slide and you will see the notes for that displayed.
Of course but I hope it gets fixed because it is very annoying. My current presentation has 35 slides and will have more. I only get seven slides displayed at a time in the left pane. That means that I have to do a lot of scrolling down to get to the right slide.

Also, it does not happen only after loading a file, but at other times.

Is there a way to report bugs to the developers?

EDIT: Here is another example:

With notes showing, select slide 32
(note 32 displays)

Select some text on note 32.
Select slide 31
(slide 1 automatically shows in the left pane as selected and slide 1 note displays. I have to scroll all the way back down to slide 31 and select it in order to work on note 31.)

Every time I add a new slide I with notes or edit it have to go through that. That seems to me to be a serious bug.
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Cheers
David
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Re: Selection of note displays wrong note.

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If your slides are named, or if you know the slide number, you can use Navigator to move quickly about the slides. I find naming a slide is useful, particularly if one wishes to make custom presentations from a large collection of slides. To do that, look at /Slide Show /Custom slide Show and select those slides you require for a particular audience; you can name that selection with a meaningful name, then make another selection for a different audience.

The Navigator will allow one to go quickly to any slide - in process of making a presentation this is often the last slide if one makes the presentation sequentially, and there is a "last slide" button on Navigator.
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Re: Selection of note displays wrong note.

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Thanks.
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