3 custom 'shows' in a deck. How to completely hide 2 of the 3?

[Carol Ann]

I have to maintain 3 very large presentations for different audiences. A
lot of the data in the 3 separate decks was redundant and very 'fluid'
requiring frequent updates, so I merged them and created 3 separate custom
slide shows for the different audiences... Works great, except I need to be
able to completely hide all slides except for the ones I am presenting to a
particular audience. Is there a way to save a custom slide show so that only
those slides that I wish to share can be seen by the audience?

 

[John Wilson]

It will only take a second to check it out! But ... they should be no warning
with links to custom shows.
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[Carol Ann]

I forgot to mention I already have hyperlinks created on the first page for
the 3 custom shows. The problem is we send these ppts out via email and
management doesn't want the audience to be able to access any of the data
except the custom show designated for that audience. I want to be able to
save it so only the selected slide show can be seen when I send it out.
Any other ideas.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

In that case, I don't think you can do what you want to do really
easily. You really want to create a slide show that only contains the
slides in a particular custom show, not just hide those slide. Any
system for hiding will them in the PPT file, accessible to everyone even
if they don't show in the show. Perhaps there is a VBA solution that
will let you scroll through all the slides and export the ones in a
particular custom show. You will really need to export the slides into
their own slide show to get what you want. Alternatively, you could look
for some kind of slide library program that will handle what you want.
--David

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

In that case, I don't think you can do what you want to do really
easily. You really want to create a slide show that only contains the
slides in a particular custom show, not just hide those slide. Any
system for hiding will them in the PPT file, accessible to everyone
even if they don't show in the show. Perhaps there is a VBA solution
that will let you scroll through all the slides and export the ones in
a particular custom show. You will really need to export the slides
into their own slide show to get what you want. Alternatively, you
could look for some kind of slide library program that will handle
what you want. --David

OK. Ignore what I said (except where it overlaps with what Steve said)
and pay attention to Steve. He found you an add-in that will do the VBA
that I was envisioning in my head.

--David