presentation Builder features??

[ricouk]

Hi,

I'm new to the group but couldn't see anything like this in the
archives. I have a large presentation which forms the bulk of all other
presentations that I do. Each presentation requires a good number of
slides from teh main one but will add, subtract or replace individual
slides to make a custom show. Does that make sense?

Anyway, Show1 may contain slides 1-10,12,15 and 19 of the base set but
not include 18 and 20, will add it's own unique 13, 14, 16 and 17 and
may replace 8, 9 and 15 to make a custom show.

Show 2 may contain 1-9, 13-17 and 20 of the base set but replace 2,3
and 5 and add a new 21.

The base set is about 400 slides and at the moment the only way I can
see of managing this is to keep sveral 400 slide unique presentations
on my PC. This gives me a couple of headaches - the size and redundancy
and if I need to change a slide that is common to all shows I have to
edit all of the presentations ;-(

I'm hoping some kind soul can tell me there is a better way and point
me in the right direction. I am currently runnng XP SP2 with Office
2002 SP3.

TIA,

Richard

 

[Guest]

Probably the way to do this is to have ALL the slides in one presentation

Within this create a series of custom shows (slide show > custom show) and
then use slide show > custom show > show to show the correct one.

Ammending the base slides will ammend the custom show and you only have one
(large) set of slides on the hard drive.

 

[ricouk]

Hi John,

That looks like it will do the job.

Thanks for the tip.

Richard

 

[ricouk]

Ooops, spoke too son. It looks like it can't cope with re-ordering the
page numbers. I made a test show of slides 1,3,7 and 10 and when I ran
it I got the page numbers 1,3,7 and 10, instead of 1,2,3,4. I have a
place holder set on the slide master to automatically fill in the slide
number. Is there a way around this?

Thanks,

Richard.

 

[Guest]

Apart from not numbering slides I dont think so.

 

[ChrisHarrington]

Hi Richard,

Our PowerPoint Automation Toolkit can build abritrary new presentations from
a set of slides in a collection of existing presentations. It can also
update data in charts and tables during the build of the new presentation.
Take a look.

http://www.activeinterface.com/pptatk.html

Chris