> \onslide*{3}{can you see that Theorem 2 is now number 1?} Of course tex/latex/powerdot does not attach identifications to pieces of source code independent of the code being typeset or not. So the answer obviously is "yes". > But I wonder what, if anything, should be done in this case > (see minimal example below). tex/latex/powerdot can never account for these kind of custom things. Use an appropriate \addtocounter. Best, -Hendri.