Copying slides with signed VBA projects

[Jean Kiepura]

Hi,

I'm currently working on a PowerPoint project with some simple macros
that have been signed with a Verisign certificate. Everything goes
well, but I just want to verify that the following behavior is normal:

If I copy a signed slide and paste it into another presentation, the
VBA module loose it's signature. This is unfortunate because we want
to distribute the PowerPoint presentation as a slide-kit that people
could use to do just that: copying and pasting slides in other
presentations.

Does someone knows about a way to let powerPoints slides keep their
signatures even after having been copied into another presentation?

Thanks for any input on that,

Jean

 

[brian]

Jean,
That would defeat the purpose of signing code. You write good code and
sign it so I know it came from you. I copy and paste it into my nasty
file and you would want to trust it if it told it that it came from
nice ol' you when it really came from nasty ol' me.

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP