Protecting slides from changes

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Is there a way to protect individual slides in a presentation from changes to
text and graphics but still have the ability to insert & delete slides from
the presentation?
 
There isn't a direct way.
Here's two you can try:
Go into Slide Show view, do a print screen on the slides, and paste it as an
image.

Or, draw a rectangular autoshape that covers the slide completely.
Double click on the autoshape.
Set the fill color to 100% transparency.
Set line color to no line.
This will make it 'invisible'.
You can also insert multiple autoshapes onto a single slide.
Take note that you might want to keep a copy of the original file for
editing purposes.
--
Shawn Toh (tohlz)
Microsoft MVP PowerPoint

Site Updated: Sept 01, 2007
(Amazing PowerPoint animations, artworks, games here)
http://pptheaven.mvps.org
PowerPoint Heaven - The Power to Animate
 
You cannot password protect individual slides, but you can try this:

Save the slides you want to protect in a separate file - saved as a
PowerPoint Show. Close the Show.
Open your original document, minus the slides you place into the Show.
Insert a new slide where you want the protected slides to to begin.
Go to Insert > Object > Create from File
Browse to find the new Show you just created
Insert the show
Resize the appear that appears in the slide
Launch this presentation in slide show view to view

Note: you can only view the inserted object in Slide Show view
you must click on the screen to launch the inserted slides (the
Enter key and
down arrow won't work)

This is far from perfect, but may give you what you need. Let me know.
 
I have a question regarding Sandy's response. I am trying to prevent people
from making changes to my slides, but also from viewing the slide transitions
and timings. Does not seem to be possible in PP XP, but I have tried your
method, which is a good way to foil the average PP user (me included!) I
created a PPT, changed to PPS and then inserted into another PPT, which I
saved as PPS, following your suggested method. To both of these I applied a
Modify Password. Then I tried to break in. I saved the PPS as a PPT, but was
only able to open as Read Only, and could not see timings etc, or copy and
paste the object to a new presentation. Great! But somebody else was able to
get at the object and make changes to slides. He tried to tell me how he did
it, but I cannot duplicate his actions with any success. He says he open the
protected PPS as a PPT in Read Only, but then was able to click in the slide
in the left side of screen, copy to a new presentation, and then double click
on the object in the edit window on the rigth and change slide content.
Could you tell me how an advanced user would get around (did get around!)
the method you have suggested? I cannot get past the Read Only! Does this
seem plausible?

Thanks so much!
 
Of greater concern to me is that the other person was able to break your
password protected file. Please forgive me for asking this - did you send
your colleague the correctfile (Read Only) ?
 
Take it on faith that it *can* be done.

To publish detailed instructions would be to make the existing password protection
less useful.
 
I am pretty sure that I had added Modify Password to both layers of the
presentation. I checked and resent with the same result. Perhaps there is
something he is not telling me...
 
Thanks for the response. I am not particularly interested in learning to
break into password-protected presentations, but am very keen to protect my
presentation (PPS) from changes and also to block users from viewing slide
transitions and timings. Do you think I am doing all I can to prevent all but
the most experienced (and devious!) PP experts from getting at the innards of
my presentation?
 
If you password protect, that's about as much as you can do to protect your
ppt.

Good luck.
--
Sandy Johnson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint)

Join us at the PowerPoint Live User Conference.
October 28-31, 2007 • New Orleans
www.powerpointlive.com.
 
Thanks for the response. I am not particularly interested in learning to
break into password-protected presentations, but am very keen to protect my
presentation (PPS) from changes and also to block users from viewing slide
transitions and timings. Do you think I am doing all I can to prevent all but
the most experienced (and devious!) PP experts from getting at the innards of
my presentation?
Click to expand...

Short of using something like Shyam's SecurePack, I think so.
http://skp.mvps.org/securepack/index.htm
 
Back
Top