Export a custom Powerpoint show

[Guest]

We here at Sprint could sorely use the ability to export a custom show to a
separate file. We have a wide range of people who work on or view decks at
specific stages in the product development cycle. At each point in that
cycle, a defined set of slides are appropriate; the others are not.
Unfortunately, keeping all the potential slides in a single, massive
template, and then creating custom shows to show only the relevant ones
doesn't work well for us because all the other now-extraneous slides confuse
the heck out of the deck editors. They edit the wrong slides, delete the
wrong slides, etc.

If we had the ability to export a custom show to a separate PDF file, we
could create one template deck, with 10 or 12 custom shows defined, and the
user could then export only the relevant slides.

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[Guest]

I meant to refer to exporting to a PPT file, not a PDF file. A PDF file
wouldn't do any good, obviously, because it isn't editable. Sorry for the
mistyping.

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Check out Toolbox. It is a 3rd party tool but has a feature to export a
custom show as a separate presentation. A 20 day fully functional free
trial is available here: http://skp.mvps.org/toolbox

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, that requires installing software on a couple hundred
computers, dealing with install issues, and training users. In this case, the
cure is worse than the disease.

This functionality (the ability to export a custom show to a separate deck)
really needs to be built into off-the-shelf PowerPoint.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Unfortunately, that requires installing software on a couple hundred
computers, dealing with install issues, and training users. In this case, the
cure is worse than the disease.

This functionality (the ability to export a custom show to a separate deck)
really needs to be built into off-the-shelf PowerPoint.

Of course, when it is, *if* it ever is, it'll involve installing software on a
couple hundred computers, dealing with install issues, and training users.

To pickpocket a neatly coined phrase. ;-)

 

[Guest]

Well, no it won't. Any change to Office tools is handled at the corporate
level, well researched, and pushed to 80,000 odd computers overnight using an
automated process. And it will be part of an official Microsoft distribution.
That's a far cry from installing an untested (by Sprint) toolkit on several
hundred computers at the department level, one at a time.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I was mostly chuckling at the notion that the next version of Office would be w/o
its training issues. If you poke around for the various screenshots, videos and
other publically available info, you'll see what I mean.

I can certainly understand how much trouble it'd be to get permission to install a
third-party add-in in a corporate setting. Unfortunately, that means that there'll
probably be no fix for the problem.