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Hello,
PowerPoint does not have built in capabilities to manage or publish
collections of presentations and slides (including, for example, previews
and searchable database) in order to facilitate the reuse of existing
content. There are a variety of 3rd party tools available for performing
varieties of management, search and retrieval tasks for "digital assets"
including the kinds of assets created and used by PowerPoint (slides,
presentations, movies, pictures, etc.). They range all the way from
products which focus specifically on PowerPoint assets to enterprise wide
solutions for managing all kinds of digital assets.
Some of them include (in no particular order of preference and without any
implied recommendation):
* Presentation Librarian - Accent Technologies
* PowerSearch - Accent Technologies
* Cumulus Office Suite - Canto
* Teams - Artesia
And most of the growing number of 3rd party solutions for capturing and
archiving recorded presentation 'casts include server-side tools for
mangement (search, access control, retrieval, etc.)
If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that PowerPoint
should include some features for managing and publishing presentations and
presentation content for easy retrieval and reuse, don't forget to send
your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.
IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).
John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto
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