Finding Duplicate slides

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I have a large presentation (385 slides), it was created
by combining several similar presentations. Is there a way
to automatically find duplicate slides in this
presentation or will I need to go through and do it
manually.

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adickens said:
I have a large presentation (385 slides), it was created
by combining several similar presentations. Is there a way
to automatically find duplicate slides in this
presentation or will I need to go through and do it
manually.
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I think you're probably going to have to do it manually. (Unless one of
the VBA gurus has an idea. Since they haven't responded to this post,
though, I suspect they don't.)
 
There are a lot of variables to take into account.

Does an object being off by one pixel count as a duplicate slide, if
everything else is the same?
It gets into a level of duplicity thing. If just the text is the same does
that qualify? Or how about the picture brightness being off a little?
That's the easy stuff.

What about an object name being different? Same object, same place, same
appearance, but different name.
Slide ID numbers will be off, and so will Slide Index and Numbers, so those
can be overlooked. Blank slides would all be the same, of course, but would
you want them all removed? What about slides that look the same, but have
an animation attached to one object? The program would have to take object
by object and find out if an exact duplicate object appeared on the
comparison slide. It is finds all the objects, and no left overs, then it
can pronounce the slide a duplicate.

I suppose you could write one, but it wouldn't be a fun task. You could ask
what level of duplicity you want to scan for, then present the user with the
slides, side by side, and give the user the option to remove one.

How badly do you want this feature? You may want to let MS know.
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

I'm with Echo on this one, I'd recommend manually comparing the slides and
deleting duplicates by hand.

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the specific capability that you are looking (find
duplicate slides).

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide better content management tools for FINDING, exporting, changing,
replacing, optimizing, deleting, etc. linked, embedded and native content
(without havuing to resort to workarounds VBA or 3rd party add-ins), don't
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