PowerPoint editability

[Guest]

How can I truely make my PowerPoint presentation uneditable. I know you can
password protect the file however it's simple to get around that. You just
have to open as read only select all the content and paste it into a new
PowerPoint doc. I need the ability for my sales team to present with
PowerPoint via MS PowerPoint, but need to lock the PowerPoint from any
editing... 100%. It also won't work for me to publish into a HTML. Any ideas,
please advise. Thank you.

 

[Guest]

SDR

What I do is, make your PPT file a PDF, once its a PDF do a save as in
Acrobat and save each page as a .jpeg file. Go back to PPT file, delete
everything on each page, then right click, go to Background, find your .jpeg
of that slide, and insert every slide as a background image. It's time
consuming, and the file will be large, but it is uneditable. I use the same
file in case there are notes that speaker needs in the notes page. Do not
save over original document.

The trick is to make your PDF file High Quality and your JPEGs 150 dpi or
higher.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

How can I truely make my PowerPoint presentation uneditable. I know you can
password protect the file however it's simple to get around that. You just
have to open as read only select all the content and paste it into a new
PowerPoint doc. I need the ability for my sales team to present with
PowerPoint via MS PowerPoint, but need to lock the PowerPoint from any
editing... 100%. It also won't work for me to publish into a HTML. Any ideas,
please advise. Thank you.

Have a look at the other options here.
Understand that nothing is perfect.

Password protect a presentation
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00038.htm

You could also see if you can find some pictures of the hands of Japanese yakuza
guys. Show one to the sales force, tell 'em "This is the last guy that messed
with one of my presentations. You should see what happened to him the NEXT time
he tried it. He was a slow learner. Don't you be one."

 

[Guest]

the powerpoint slide show convertar program maybe solve this problem. in the
following link:

http://www.sharewareconnection.com/powerpoint-slide-show-converter.htm

$$Good Luck$$

 

[Guest]

Can you really copy and paste from a passworded pres??

 

[Guest]

John,

I can't recreate it. I know this is possible with a show-in-a-show, but
maybe I'm missing something.

Sandy
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[Guest]

Hi Sandy

I'm pretty sure you can't (though it's not hard to read the password if you
know how!) Maybe I'm missing something though.

You might want to play with embedding a passworded pps within a show as this
seems not only to prevent edits but also looking at the animations.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

SDR

What I do is, make your PPT file a PDF, once its a PDF do a save as in
Acrobat and save each page as a .jpeg file. Go back to PPT file, delete
everything on each page, then right click, go to Background, find your .jpeg
of that slide, and insert every slide as a background image. It's time
consuming, and the file will be large, but it is uneditable. I use the same
file in case there are notes that speaker needs in the notes page. Do not
save over original document.

One of the hints on the page I linked to was an add-in called Protect (one of
ours) that does more or less that ... automatically.

Big time saver. <g>