Powerpoint VBA Project Protection Issue

[immediateintelligence]

Hi

I've created a project in powerpoint which is password protected. The
code of which is in the slide object rather than a module so that the
functionality is retained when I copy the slide to another
presentation. However the problem I have is that although the slide
and code are copied across to the project for the new presentation it
doesn't retain the password protection!

Does any one have a simple fix for this? Ideally I would like to keep
the same password.

Thanks

 

[Shyam Pillai]

Not much luck there. The password is project based, so copying components of
a project to another will not transfer the password. There is not shortcut
approach to this. You just have to do it manually each time.


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[thewiz]

Thanks for the quick response.

So it seems only module based code is protected then! Not exactly a
secure way to protect your hard written code if anyone can copy slides
and get access to it. Oh well I guess MS missed a trick, again.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Cool. That is a neat bug. I just tried it by creating a simple file with a
password for viewing the VBA. If I close and try to view the VBA, it asks
me for the password. However, even if I don't type the password, it lets me
copy and paste slides to another presentation and view code associated with
those slides over there. Thanks for pointing this out. By the way, I did my
testing in 2003. I wonder if anything has changed in 2007.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
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