Lock-in formatting for entire slide show

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I am creating a large slide show that others will need to look at and add
feedback...but I want to lock the current format so that their "feedback"
doesn't put me back another day due to having to reformat or worse...recreate
slides! Is there a way to do this?
 
I'm not sure there is a way to "lock it", but it helpful to have as much as
possible set-up in the master (font sizes, colors, bullets,etc.,)
 
I am creating a large slide show that others will need to look at and add
feedback...but I want to lock the current format so that their "feedback"
doesn't put me back another day due to having to reformat or worse...recreate
slides! Is there a way to do this?
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Send them a copy of the presentation, keep a clean one for yourself.

Open both up, choose Window, Arrange to view them side-by-side and apply the
suggestions from their copy to your copy. Or not, as practicality and common
sense dictate.
 
Okay...so I am gathering from everyones responses that there really is no
good way to lock the presentation so it doesn't get all screwed up. This is
definitely a problem...some of the reviewers have older/newer versions of
PP...so when they open the presentation...it changes things without them even
having to do anything to it...as they send it on to the next person for
review...the next person is seeing all the changes that were made due to PP
edition issues instead of actual things that need to be fixed. It is really a
mess by the time it makes it back to me!

I am thinking my only solution might be to PDF the presentation have them
just make notes as to what they want changed and than I will have to manually
edit the one and only true copy of the presentation!

Thanks for all your help everyone! Wish MS would add that feature to PP! :-P
 
Okay...so I am gathering from everyones responses that there really is no
good way to lock the presentation so it doesn't get all screwed up.
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And if there were, the users making comments couldn't make 'em, since the
presentation would be locked. <g>

I think your PDF idea is a good one, so long as everyone has a version of the
software needed to add comments to PDF. Acrobat has a nice feature that lets you
consolidate all the comments into a new PDF that lists each reader's remarks page by
page. Very handy for just this kind of thing.

This is
 
Steve,
Thanks...I had completely forgotten about that option!!! Perfect! Thank you
again for the help!
 
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