Urgent Help! Help!! Help!!!

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TeeJay

Can someone please help,
I,m developing a template with PowerPoint 97 and need to
solve the follwing problems>

1. I will like to prevent users from moving the place
holders and other objects in my template.

2. I will also like toprevent the users from changing the
fonts. Is there a code I can use to prompt the user not to
change the fonts, if s/he tries to change the font sizes
in the template.

Thanks

TeeJay
 
-----Original Message-----
Can someone please help,
I,m developing a template with PowerPoint 97 and need to
solve the follwing problems>

1. I will like to prevent users from moving the place
holders and other objects in my template.

2. I will also like toprevent the users from changing the
fonts. Is there a code I can use to prompt the user not to
change the fonts, if s/he tries to change the font sizes
in the template.

Thanks

TeeJay
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Firdst of all, I recommend that you upgrade your
Powerpoint program. You're missing a lot by not doing so.

If what you want to protect your presentation, not only
the template or fonts, check out PrezGuard Pro at
www.aladat.com and download their trial version.

Hope this helps.
 
This was brought up a while ago. If memory serves (I think mine is in for 5
to 10 years), it IS conceivable that a VBA routine could undo any changes
that were not allowed, but it would not be an easy routine to write.

To have the text within a placeholder changeable, the rest of the formatting
must also be changeable.

Or maybe, just a thought, you could write a macro that ...
- when anything is selected in view mode ...
- deselects it and ...
- if it is a placeholder or textbox ...
- displays an input box that...
- the user types the new text into, and that...
- changes the text in the box that was selected.

This would NOT prevent a motivated idiot from changing your template, but it
would make it a tad harder.
This is also not an Urgent, help help type of solution. As far as I know,
there are no off the shelf solutions available that address your issue.

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This was brought up a while ago. If memory serves (I think mine is in for
5
to 10 years), it IS conceivable that a VBA routine could undo any changes
that were not allowed, but it would not be an easy routine to write.
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Particularly in PPT97 - 2000 and up support events, so you can play games
like deselecting something as soon as it's selected. Not a 100% solution,
but fairly good. Even that would require that the user have an addin
installed, though.
 
Did not remember that 97 couldn't support events. How did we ever survive?

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Hello TeeJay,

PowerPoint does not have the specific capability that you are looking for.
Currently all security and protection features in PowerPoint are applied to
the entire file (not to particular items within a file such as Template or
Font formatting).

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide more granular control over who can do what with different parts of
a presentation, don't forget to send your feedback 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

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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