If you have a presentation that can be viewed, then you can not prevent a
motivated narf from printing them. You can prevent a person from modifying
your presentations, but not from doing a screen capture.
If the information is exceptionally sensitive (adoption/prison records --
type of sensitive) you may want to create a cover box VBA routine. The
cover box would show a message that the information in this slide is
confidential, privileged, copyrighted, eye's only, top secret, destroy
before reading, etc.
Password protect the zipped presentation in PPS format using:
1) Win-zip passwords
2) PowerPoint 2002 passwords (both to open and modify)
Then, have the VBA add-in require another password/username. The function
of this VBA routine would be to:
1) Limit access to authorized users with encoded passwords
2) Report via e-mail/ftp who accesses data and when
3) Remove the cover box prior to the slide being shown
4) Replace it after the slide is no longer shown
5) Replace it before any attempted saves
6) Replace it prior to any attempted printing
7) Replace it when presentation ends or is aborted
But again, if one of the authorized viewers is a narf ....
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