Can you password protect just the slide master in powerpoint?

[Guest]

I want to protect the slide and title masters of a presentation so that
nothing in the masters can be changed or deleted but I want others to still
be able to add slides and text etc to the presentation. Can this be done?

 

[Guest]

It cant but you could try this "confusion tactic"



Design the master as a normal slide (layout = blank) then SAVE AS > type png
file

Use this picture to set the background of the master (format >
background>Fill effects>picture. Nothing on the background can be
individually selected deleted or changed
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[Steve Rindsberg]

Another little trick that just struck me:

On the master, draw a rectangle atop everything, make it way bigger than the
slide, fill it, give it 100% transparency.

It's not going to stop anyone who knows what they're doing, but would slow down
most users, and has the advantage of leaving the masters editable to those who
do.

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

And to add to Steve's idea. Repeat that process several times and
each time select all and group. That will give you multiple layers of
invisible grouped objects as a deterent.

Brian Reilly, MVP

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Word of warning: This idea (and Brian's addition) will work fine as long as
you don't have anything on your master that needs to be clicked during the
slide show. (Can you say navigation? I knew you could ) Clicks are taken
by the top level object, so they won't ever reach your navigation.....

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[Steve Rindsberg]

And to add to Steve's idea. Repeat that process several times and
each time select all and group. That will give you multiple layers of
invisible grouped objects as a deterent.

Good, good. But don't select all; you need to select everything but the
placeholders; can't group those guys.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Word of warning: This idea (and Brian's addition) will work fine as long as
you don't have anything on your master that needs to be clicked during the
slide show. (Can you say navigation? I knew you could ) Clicks are taken
by the top level object, so they won't ever reach your navigation.....

Ah right. Thanks for the caveat.

You could put the nav buttons atop the "mystery object" and even group them
with it (of course the user might select and delete them all that way). Just
atop but loose would be best, I think. And grouped might cause problems with
some viewers.

 

[Guest]

You can also give the "mystery object" an exit animation (with previous) this
way it cant interfere but still mysterifies the master!
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

You can also give the "mystery object" an exit animation (with previous) this
way it cant interfere but still mysterifies the master!

In other words, it's there on the master in edit mode but immediately waltzes
off screen when the slide show starts. Oh, you *are* devious.

 

[Guest]

tis true!
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist