Sldm and sldx in PowerPoint 07?

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Alex

Microsoft documentation mentions the new slide formats .sldx and .sldm
for PowerPoint 2007. However, I can't find any way within PowerPoint
to save files in these formats and they are not listed among the
filetypes that PowerPoint knows how to open in the file open dialog.
Does anybody know how to create files in this format, or where I can
obtain existing files in .sldx or .sldm format?

Thanks.
 
Hi Alex

*Very* good question. Nobody knows. You used to be able to drag a slide on
to your desktop and create a 'scrap' file which was basically a one slide
presentation (very handy) but you can't do that in 2007. It may be that that
was the intention for sldx (single slide) and sldm (slide with macros
enabled) but it didn't work/someone forgot/they thought we wouldn't notice.
You can rename a file 'sldx' and it opens in 2007 (regardless of how many
slides there are in the presentation (and it doesn't lose any)) but I don't
really see the point.

I believe an MVP or two are on the case so maybe we'll find out at some
point....

Lucy
 
Alex,

Sldx is xml speak for a slide in the new Office XML formats.

For example, create a new text document and rename it to "temp.sldx". Double
click and open it and it will default to PowerPoint 2007, but there will be
no actual slide there. But when you are coding in XML, you can write your
code to create a slide and all sorts of information, text and other objects
without the need for the application itself. Put the correct code in it, and
you have an automatic slide template!!!

Now the really exciting one is DrawingML!

--

Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Please tell us your PowerPoint version

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
 
Ahhhh, techy stuff - no wonder I didn't understand. Still wish they hadn't
taken away the scrap file thingo...

Lucy
 
Hi,

There's more! OLE or object linking and, well, you know!

A Presentation Slide (sldx) is really an object type that can be shared with
applications, but no other slides can be added to it. Try these...

Insert an existing presentation that contains more than one slide into a new
presentation as an object. Right click on the embedded presentation, go to
Slide Object, Convert. You will see, among the options, in addition to your
current Microsoft Office PowerPoint Presentation is a Microsoft Office
PowerPoint Slide! You can convert it to a single slide but will lose all
your other slides!

Or you can insert a new Microsoft Office PowerPoint Slide all by itself.
Now...

If you insert a Slide alone, you can only ever have one slide in it. Even if
you edit that presentation, you cannot add a second slide. I guess that is
the type that is offered. This is also available in previous version, btw.

The opening of the text file renamed is really only a trick based on file
associations. But it's a good way to find out which application will respond
to it. BTW, if you build the text file and insert it into PowerPoint as a
sldx object, you cannot add any other slides to it! But if you double click
the sldx file, you can, because it is no longer a Presentation Slide but
opens in PowerPoint as a File. Clear as mud, huh!

Anyway I guess it is a way of inserting a single slide that cannot be added
to.

The sldm one is simply a macro enable version of the same thing.

--

Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Please tell us your PowerPoint version

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
 
The opening of the text file renamed is really only a trick based on file
associations. But it's a good way to find out which application will respond
to it. BTW, if you build the text file and insert it into PowerPoint as a
sldx object, you cannot add any other slides to it! But if you double click
the sldx file, you can, because it is no longer a Presentation Slide but
opens in PowerPoint as a File. Clear as mud, huh!
Click to expand...

As a file named Presentation 1 or whatever PPT would ordinarily name the next
unsaved file started with File, New.

But NOT as Whatever.SLDX

And if you go to save it, you can't save as WhateverOrAnythingElse.SLDX
 
Steve Rindsberg said:
As a file named Presentation 1 or whatever PPT would ordinarily name the
next
unsaved file started with File, New.

But NOT as Whatever.SLDX

And if you go to save it, you can't save as WhateverOrAnythingElse.SLDX
Click to expand...

Steve,

That's correct! There is no ability to save as this type, so it is mainly
for Object Linking and Embedding. Even if yo save it as
WhateverOrAnythingElse.SLDX, PowerPoint 2007 adds the pptx extension.
 
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