PowerPoint presentation protection challenge

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Hi all,

I have a dilemma. I have a PowerPoint presentation that I need to distribute
to both Mac and PC users. I need to protect the presentation from being
changed or from being saved as a different name and used from there. I also
do not know the versions of PowerPoint the recipients have. I know that not
all versions of PowerPoint support modify password protection and I know I
can use the PowerPoint viewer but I am not sure if a Mac can view a slide
show in PowerPoint viewer. I also know that PrezGuard and Secure Pack maybe
options, but again, I'm not sure if this will work with the Mac users. Does
anyone know of a solution that will work so that the recipients can view my
presentation in slide show view? Should I just export the slides as pictures
and then reimport to a new presentation or create PDF files of the slides?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Lauren M
 
Mac users can download Mac PowerPoint Viewer 98(check this out:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00153.htm). If your presentation is kept
simple, it should run fine. Otherwise, you might want to consider
distributing the presentation as a movie or flash.
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Hi all,

I have a dilemma. I have a PowerPoint presentation that I need to distribute
to both Mac and PC users. I need to protect the presentation from being
changed or from being saved as a different name and used from there.
Click to expand...

PowerPoint/Mac doesn't support password protection, so PowerPoint's own
passwording won't help (and it won't work for users with PPT 2000 or earlier on
Windows either).
do not know the versions of PowerPoint the recipients have. I know that not
all versions of PowerPoint support modify password protection and I know I
can use the PowerPoint viewer but I am not sure if a Mac can view a slide
show in PowerPoint viewer. I also know that PrezGuard and Secure Pack maybe
options, but again, I'm not sure if this will work with the Mac users.
Click to expand...

I don't believe so.
anyone know of a solution that will work so that the recipients can view my
presentation in slide show view? Should I just export the slides as pictures
and then reimport to a new presentation or create PDF files of the slides?
Click to expand...

PDF seems like the best bet to me. You can password protect against changes
and can expect that to work on any reasonably recent version of both Mac and
Windows Acrobat/Reader.

Getting a PDF to fire off in slide show view in all cases can be a bit touchy;
it might be overridden by the users's preferences in some cases. There might
also be xplatform issues with media files in some formats, but it's probably
going to be simpler to overcome in PDF than PPT.

If your PPT has a lot of interactive features (hyperlinks, action buttons and
such) you might want to have a look at our Prep4PDF add-in for PowerPoint

http://prep4pdf.pptools.com
 
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