Password protecting slides & shapes

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Is it possible to apply password protection to an individual shape or slide
within an otherwise unsecured PowerPoint presentation? If not through the
PowerPoint user interface, is it possible using VBA or VSTO/VS 2005?

Pete
 
What are you trying to protect? Someone from easily editing the shape or
slide? If so, you could convert the shape or the slide to an image file. Of
course, the person could change that in an image-editing program, but if the
person can see the presentation, you can't prevent that.

I'm assuming you're using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003.

To save an AutoShape as an image, select it, right-click and choose Save as
Picture. You can then insert the image file and delete the AutoShape.

You can save a slide as an image too. Display it and choose File > Save As.
Choose JPEG or another image file type from the Save as Type drop-down list.
Choose a name and location and click Save. You'll see a dialog box asking you
if you want to save every slide or just the current slide. Choose Current
Slide. You can then insert the JPEG on top of the slide as an image. You can
delete the slide content if you want to, to avoid making that available. You
could also insert the image as a background for the slide.

Ellen
 
Hi Ellen,

Thanks for replying. What I want to do is create a presentation (PowerPoint
2003) that may be modified by other people but I want to ensure that they
don't modify (or delete) certain pieces of mandatory text, disclaimers etc.
from the presentation while editing. Your suggestion is a good one and I will
give that a go. Thanks.

This is a big ask I know, but is it possible to stop someone from deleteing
a shape/image/slide from the presentation?

Pete
 
Thanks Tohlz. That looks interesting - I'll grab the evaluation version and
try it out.

Pete
 
Thanks for replying. What I want to do is create a presentation (PowerPoint
2003) that may be modified by other people but I want to ensure that they
don't modify (or delete) certain pieces of mandatory text, disclaimers etc.
from the presentation while editing. Your suggestion is a good one and I will
give that a go. Thanks.

This is a big ask I know, but is it possible to stop someone from deleteing
a shape/image/slide from the presentation?
Click to expand...

Not really (at least, you can't stop a reasonably knowledgeable and determined
user).

A lot depends on the users though. If it's a question of keeping them from
accidentally deleting stuff rather than deliberately doing so, then an add-in can
do the job. Of course, the add-in would have to be loaded on the user's PC to
have any effect. Obviously, this wouldn't work to control presentations that you
distribute to others outside an organization.
 
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