Adding an automatic corporate footer to all presentations?

[Guest]

In our company we want to have all presentations to automatically have the
file path, file name, user who created the presentation and the date created
automatically added as a footer. IS this possible? We do this with Word and
Excell already but I am told that Power Point does not have this
functionality.

Thansk,

Ken

 

[Austin Myers]

Natively PPT doesn't offer this, however you could do it with a small VBA
add in.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Guest]

Can a VBA add in be pushed out to client PC's without their interaction, or
would it have to be enabled individually? We are trying to do this without
relying on any end-user intervention. We are using PP 2003 but are presently
evaluating 2007, including functionality like this.

Thasnk again

 

[Austin Myers]

Can a VBA add in be pushed out to client PC's without their interaction,
or
would it have to be enabled individually? We are trying to do this without
relying on any end-user intervention. We are using PP 2003 but are
presently
evaluating 2007, including functionality like this.

Without their interaction? No, they will need to install it and alter
security settings allowing it to run. With PPT 07 there are additional
issues to deal with. Sorry...



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

As Austin's mentioned, 2007 is a bit testier than 2003 when it comes to
installing addins.

Whether you can do this in 2003 will depend on your user's security settings.
If "Trust installed addins and templates" is checked in Tools, Macro, Security,
Trusted Publishers, PPT will trust any installed add-in, even if the security
level is set to Very High.

What's an installed addin? One that's listed in the registry:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\x.0\PowerPoint\Addins\AddinName (where x = PPT
version number; 2003=11, 2007=12 and so on)

Under that key, you'll need two values:

AutoLoad REG_DWORD = 0xffffffff
Path REG_SZ = path to addin's PPA file

If you have a tool that can roll out those settings, you should be ok, at least
for 2003

Poke around the registry a bit and you'll probably work out how to set the
Trusted Publishers option as well.