 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
| HomeDiscussionsAccessExcelInfoPathOutlookPowerPointPublisherWordDirectoryUser Groups Related Topics Outlook ExpressInternet ExplorerWindowsMS Server ProductsMore Topics ... |
MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / September 2007Protecting slides from changes
Is there a way to protect individual slides in a presentation from changes to text and graphics but still have the ability to insert & delete slides from the presentation? There isn't a direct way. Here's two you can try: Go into Slide Show view, do a print screen on the slides, and paste it as an image. Or, draw a rectangular autoshape that covers the slide completely. Double click on the autoshape. Set the fill color to 100% transparency. Set line color to no line. This will make it 'invisible'. You can also insert multiple autoshapes onto a single slide. Take note that you might want to keep a copy of the original file for editing purposes.  SignatureShawn Toh (tohlz) Microsoft MVP PowerPoint Site Updated: Sept 01, 2007 (Amazing PowerPoint animations, artworks, games here) http://pptheaven.mvps.org PowerPoint Heaven - The Power to Animate > Is there a way to protect individual slides in a presentation from changes to > text and graphics but still have the ability to insert & delete slides from > the presentation? You cannot password protect individual slides, but you can try this: Save the slides you want to protect in a separate file - saved as a PowerPoint Show. Close the Show. Open your original document, minus the slides you place into the Show. Insert a new slide where you want the protected slides to to begin. Go to Insert > Object > Create from File Browse to find the new Show you just created Insert the show Resize the appear that appears in the slide Launch this presentation in slide show view to view Note: you can only view the inserted object in Slide Show view you must click on the screen to launch the inserted slides (the Enter key and down arrow won't work) This is far from perfect, but may give you what you need. Let me know. SignatureSandy Johnson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint) > Is there a way to protect individual slides in a presentation from changes to > text and graphics but still have the ability to insert & delete slides from > the presentation? I have a question regarding Sandy's response. I am trying to prevent people from making changes to my slides, but also from viewing the slide transitions and timings. Does not seem to be possible in PP XP, but I have tried your method, which is a good way to foil the average PP user (me included!) I created a PPT, changed to PPS and then inserted into another PPT, which I saved as PPS, following your suggested method. To both of these I applied a Modify Password. Then I tried to break in. I saved the PPS as a PPT, but was only able to open as Read Only, and could not see timings etc, or copy and paste the object to a new presentation. Great! But somebody else was able to get at the object and make changes to slides. He tried to tell me how he did it, but I cannot duplicate his actions with any success. He says he open the protected PPS as a PPT in Read Only, but then was able to click in the slide in the left side of screen, copy to a new presentation, and then double click on the object in the edit window on the rigth and change slide content. Could you tell me how an advanced user would get around (did get around!) the method you have suggested? I cannot get past the Read Only! Does this seem plausible? Thanks so much! > You cannot password protect individual slides, but you can try this: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > text and graphics but still have the ability to insert & delete slides from > > the presentation? Of greater concern to me is that the other person was able to break your password protected file. Please forgive me for asking this - did you send your colleague the correctfile (Read Only) ? SignatureSandy Johnson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint) > I have a question regarding Sandy's response. I am trying to prevent people > from making changes to my slides, but also from viewing the slide transitions [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > > text and graphics but still have the ability to insert & delete slides from > > > the presentation? I am pretty sure that I had added Modify Password to both layers of the presentation. I checked and resent with the same result. Perhaps there is something he is not telling me... > Of greater concern to me is that the other person was able to break your > password protected file. Please forgive me for asking this - did you send [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > > > > text and graphics but still have the ability to insert & delete slides from > > > > the presentation? Take it on faith that it *can* be done. To publish detailed instructions would be to make the existing password protection less useful. > Could you tell me how an advanced user would get around (did get around!) > the method you have suggested? I cannot get past the Read Only! Does this [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > text and graphics but still have the ability to insert & delete slides from > > > the presentation? ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Thanks for the response. I am not particularly interested in learning to break into password-protected presentations, but am very keen to protect my presentation (PPS) from changes and also to block users from viewing slide transitions and timings. Do you think I am doing all I can to prevent all but the most experienced (and devious!) PP experts from getting at the innards of my presentation? > Take it on faith that it *can* be done. > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ If you password protect, that's about as much as you can do to protect your ppt. Good luck. SignatureSandy Johnson Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint) Join us at the PowerPoint Live User Conference. October 28-31, 2007 • New Orleans www.powerpointlive.com. > Thanks for the response. I am not particularly interested in learning to > break into password-protected presentations, but am very keen to protect my [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ > Thanks for the response. I am not particularly interested in learning to > break into password-protected presentations, but am very keen to protect my > presentation (PPS) from changes and also to block users from viewing slide > transitions and timings. Do you think I am doing all I can to prevent all but > the most experienced (and devious!) PP experts from getting at the innards of > my presentation? Short of using something like Shyam's SecurePack, I think so. http://skp.mvps.org/securepack/index.htm > > Take it on faith that it *can* be done. > > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.