Compliance Pattern

Confidential Legal Footer

A single-line confidentiality or usage notice in the footer with optional slide numbering.

confidential-legal-footer

Use Case

Investor, board, legal, HR, and customer decks with controlled distribution.

When to Use

Use when distribution constraints matter and every page needs the same legal reminder.

When to Avoid

Avoid in public talks, recruiting decks, or web-published materials where legal copy undermines trust.

OPF Config Options

Slide numbers: Enabled
Slide number text: {{slide.number}}
Date format: Not used
Logo position: Not used
Legal line: Confidential - do not distribute
Classification line: Not used
Header content: Not used
Footer content: {legalLine}
Hide on title slide: No

Zone width and inset

The left, center and right zones of design.header and design.footer sit on the content inset: the slide's padding, the same left and right edge as the body, so a footer lines up with the content above it. They are three columns separated by a small gutter (2% of the slide width).

A zone with no content (no image, text, socials or date) lends its column to its neighbours. A lone zone spans the whole content width, so a long source line stays on one line; left and right together share the free centre; a center zone stays centred on the slide and only widens symmetrically. Right-to-left decks mirror the zones.

Zone text that still wraps past two lines is reported by the opf/furniture-wraps validation warning: shorten it, or move sources to a caption or the speaker notes.

Core 0.22.0 behavior.

Best Practices

Use the shortest approved legal phrase.

Keep the line muted but readable.

Do not mix multiple confidentiality labels on the same slide.

OPF Config

headers-footers:confidential-legal-footer

OPF JSON

{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "name": "PPTX.gallery — headers-footers/confidential-legal-footer",
  "tags": [
    "gallery:headers-footers/confidential-legal-footer"
  ],
  "design": {
    "footer": {
      "left": {
        "text": "Confidential - do not distribute"
      },
      "right": {
        "text": "{{slide.number}}"
      }
    }
  },
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-hf-title",
      "layout": "text",
      "title": "Quarterly Operating Review",
      "subtitle": "Header/footer pattern \"confidential-legal-footer\"."
    },
    {
      "id": "gallery-hf-content",
      "layout": "list",
      "title": "Header & footer preview",
      "items": [
        "Repeated furniture stays outside the content grid",
        "Slide numbers renumber in PowerPoint"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "catalogs": {
    "default": {
      "source": "https://www.pptx.gallery",
      "layouts": {
        "text": {
          "name": "Text",
          "summary": "Prose. Several blocks sit side by side when short and stack when long.",
          "tags": [
            "Text"
          ],
          "direction": "column",
          "regions": [
            {
              "name": "title"
            },
            {
              "name": "body",
              "accepts": [
                "text",
                "list",
                "quote",
                "code",
                "group"
              ],
              "role": "primary",
              "flow": "auto"
            }
          ],
          "description": "Explain one idea in continuous prose. Use paragraphs or flowing blocks for detail that needs to be read in sequence.",
          "preview": {
            "vectorSrc": "https://www.pptx.gallery/layout-previews/text.svg"
          }
        },
        "list": {
          "name": "List",
          "summary": "Bulleted or numbered points; one long list flows into columns.",
          "tags": [
            "Text"
          ],
          "direction": "column",
          "regions": [
            {
              "name": "title"
            },
            {
              "name": "body",
              "accepts": [
                "list",
                "text",
                "group"
              ],
              "role": "primary",
              "flow": "auto",
              "listColumns": "auto"
            }
          ],
          "description": "Present several related points in a clear sequence. Use bullets for independent points or numbered items for an ordered list.",
          "preview": {
            "vectorSrc": "https://www.pptx.gallery/layout-previews/list.svg"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Open in visual editor Open in Inspector

Load this config in the gallery's visual editor, or in the Inspector at pptx.dev.

Playground deep link: config=headers-footers:confidential-legal-footer

Confidential Legal Footer