Help! I want to lock in text field from being moved

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I need to send out powerpoints to various people that in the slides contain
blank fields. These field are positioned in a certain way. I need them to
fill out those fields and send that PP back to me.

I dont want them to mistakenly move those fields, even a little bit. How can
I lock them in so that they can be filled out, but they cannot be moved?
Defining them in master slide will not work for this application.
 
Objects can't be "locked" in PowerPoint. You can password protect a
presentation to prohibit modification, but if you want people to edit an object,
there's a chance that they might nudge it.

You could probably write some VBA that could be used when the file is returned
to you to explicitly check and re-position any object that has been moved .

I guess you could send them the presentation along with a Word document/form
that asks them for the content, but then you would have to enter the text
yourself.
 
What Sonia said .... but also


This is not ideal.....but you could try making the actual text boxes (over sized) go off the edge of the slide area in
powerpoint. With careful manipulation of the alignment of the text in the text boxes and margin settings you can make
the text appear where you want it....but there is less chance of someone moving the text boxes. It's not a watertight
guaranteed solution though.

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TAJ Simmons
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What they all said but another option to group them. At least the whole
thing will move.

OR I haven't tried this but could work .
Create all your slides as master slides. Bingo ! no one can edit or move :-)

...around of a applause for me please ....

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