Merging two PPoint presentations

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gulldogg - 30 Aug 2007 09:06 GMT

Hello, my colleagues and I are having difficulty with our presentation
merging. I am their language approval guy, and I routinely make changes to
their review files and send them back through our internal filesharing
system. They apply the changes and then send it back to me for a second
review. The problem is, upon this second reading, I'm noticing that a lot of
my changes have not been applied. We can't figure out what the problem is.

Is there a known bug that exists for this problem? Or is it possible that
the file changes are being messed up in the transfer between our computers?

Any input would be great! Thanks.

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Steve Rindsberg - 30 Aug 2007 17:33 GMT

> Hello, my colleagues and I are having difficulty with our presentation
> merging. I am their language approval guy, and I routinely make changes to
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> Is there a known bug that exists for this problem? Or is it possible that
> the file changes are being messed up in the transfer between our computers?

I'm puzzled. You mention merging in both the subject and your first paragraph,
but you don't describe how (or really even whether) two files are merged.

It seems as though that might be the weak point, but w/o knowing how it's done,
there's no way to guess what might be going wrong.

Fill in the blanks and we'll go from there.

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gulldogg - 31 Aug 2007 07:24 GMT

Hi Steve,

We're working with Presentation for Review mode, and once I'm done making my
modifications to the Review file, I send it back to them on our internal
filesharing system. They then merge the Review file (with my modifications)
with their original saved in the Presentation format. This allows them to
accept or deny my changes and suggestions in Revision mode.

Our problem is that after they're finished accepting my changes and they end
Revision mode, they save the two files again (one in Presentation format and
one in Presentation for Review format) and resend the two files back to
me....every time I open the Presentation for Review, I'm seeing the old
mistakes that I had already changed the first time, and they say that they
have accepted my changes, but changes aren't reflected in the file.

Hope it's clearer! Thanks for the reply.

> > Hello, my colleagues and I are having difficulty with our presentation
> > merging. I am their language approval guy, and I routinely make changes to
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Steve Rindsberg - 31 Aug 2007 15:59 GMT

MUCH clearer, thanks. I've never used the Presentation for Review or merging
features, but maybe someone who has can jump in on this.

I'd also suggest this if you're not already doing something like it:

Give each file name a suffix like _XX_2007-mm-dd where XX is the individual user's
initials and mm and dd are the month and date respectively.

In other words, I'd get a file from you, open it and, before doing anything else,
save it as OriginalFilename_SR_2007-08-30.PPT

This might help sort things out if people are saving/merging in the wrong order.

> Hi Steve,
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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