Tracking Text Changes

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Kellie

Say I receive a Power Point Presentation from someone. Is there any
way to view the changes that were made to the document before the
presentation was sent to me.

I work for a company that sends out the same presentation with the
exception of a few percentage changes and company name change. I don't
want the new company to see what I proposed to the other company.

How can I make sure they can't see this edited information?
 
I work for a company that sends out the same presentation with the
exception of a few percentage changes and company name change. I don't
want the new company to see what I proposed to the other company.

How can I make sure they can't see this edited information?
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PowerPoint doesn't have the revision tracking features you might be accustomed
to in Word. You'll want to turn the Fast Saves option off (in Tools, Options)
but other than that, there's no way to get at the previous version of text that
you've changed.

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I work for a company that sends out the same presentation with the
exception of a few percentage changes and company name change. I don't
want the new company to see what I proposed to the other company.
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Another thought that you might find useful:

Create your presentation with none of the changeable data in it at all.
Instead, pop in unique "identifiers" like SLS98 for Sales, 1998 or whatever
makes sense to you.

Then you can open a copy of this "template" presentation, do a search and
replace to substitute your '98 sales for "SLS98" in the text and save to a new
name.

That way the version that you send out to a given company has never had any
"live" data in it but the data you want them to see.

And doing it this way lends itself nicely to automation later, in case you get
lots of these to do. It's possible to automatically plug in data from a
spreadsheet into your template file.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
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