Context Pattern

Version Control Footer

A footer that combines version, date, and slide number for draft-heavy review cycles.

version-control-footer

Use Case

Product specs, board drafts, legal review packets, and project plans with many revision rounds.

When to Use

Use when people will compare drafts and need a visible version marker outside file names.

When to Avoid

Avoid on final presentation decks unless version history is still relevant to the audience.

OPF Config Options

Slide numbers: Enabled
Slide number text: {{slide.number}}
Date format: yyyy-MM-dd
Logo position: Not used
Legal line: Not used
Classification line: Not used
Header content: Not used
Footer content: v{version} - {date}
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 ISO dates when precision matters.

Drop the version marker from final customer-facing decks.

Keep version text out of the title area.

OPF Config

headers-footers:version-control-footer

OPF JSON

{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "name": "PPTX.gallery — headers-footers/version-control-footer",
  "tags": [
    "gallery:headers-footers/version-control-footer"
  ],
  "design": {
    "footer": {
      "left": {
        "text": "v0.8"
      },
      "center": {
        "date": "2026-04-23",
        "dateFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd"
      },
      "right": {
        "text": "{{slide.number}}"
      }
    }
  },
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-hf-title",
      "layout": "text",
      "title": "Quarterly Operating Review",
      "subtitle": "Header/footer pattern \"version-control-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:version-control-footer

Version Control Footer