Is there any way to lock part of a PowerPoint Presentation?

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Jodi

I want to send out a generic presentation for our sales force to use. I want
most of it locked, but a couple areas unlocked so they can modify to suit the
customers.
 
Unfortunately not. If the portion you want them to access is all in the same area of the presentation, you could have two presentations that link. One protected and one not. Also depends on the version of PowerPoint your using.

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Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


I want to send out a generic presentation for our sales force to use. I want
most of it locked, but a couple areas unlocked so they can modify to suit the
customers.
 
What Michael said + consider creating (multiple) master slides for the
elements/slides you don't want edited. This is not full proof -- anyone can
go into a master and edit it -- but it might slow down your sales force's
desire to edit since it takes an additional step to do.
 
Hi Jodi

Steve Rindsberg of PPTools.com demo-ed something like this at PPTLive '08.
Not sure how far he had got with the project, how much it costs or any other
relevant details I'm afraid but he'll be along here later or you can contact
him through his website.

Lucy
 
Hi Jodi

Steve Rindsberg of PPTools.com demo-ed something like this at PPTLive '08.
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2008? I've heard of lost Weekends in New Orleans said:
Not sure how far he had got with the project,
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In one form or another, it's on a LOT of corporate desktops and has been for
over a year.
 
I want to send out a generic presentation for our sales force to use. I want
most of it locked, but a couple areas unlocked so they can modify to suit the
customers.
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One way of doing this is to convert the "locked" slides to images. There are a
couple ways of going about this, some free but a big "worky". We have an add-in
that automates it for you: http://www.pptools.com/protect/

The add-in that Lucy mentions might also help but it's not so much a security
solution as a "Let's make it easy for them to do what we want them to so they're
less inclined to do it in any way that pops into their minds" kind of thing.
 
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