PowerPoint doesn't offer this ability itself, but there are third party programs
that allow you to construct slides from a "database"
If memory serves, there's one called SlideWhere that does this. You might want
to google that to see what turns up.
In article <E3ADA6AD-883A-4BF4-9041-(E-Mail Removed)>, R watkins
wrote:
> I deliver courses, and have a body of around 10 courses. Each couurse
> consists of - say - 100 slides. Each course is broken down into around 5/6
> Logical sections. Within each course, there are some sliddes which are unique
> to that course.
>
> However, there are some slides which are common to all courses.
>
> Clearly if one of these common slides changes, then the slide needs to
> change across all of the courses. Is there a way that a course can me made up
> with links to a database of slides, so that the slide can be changed only
> once, and then all the courses are automatically updated?
>
> Clearly each slide would need to have a unique identifier, which would need
> to be referenced by the master course slideshow.
>
> Once upon a time Freelance enabled you just to set up a list of all the
> slides to be included in a particular slide show, and then this acted as the
> "Master Document" for the slide show. Does anyone know of anyting similar
> which can be created for Powerpoint ?
>
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