Protecting my presentation from being edited

[Guest]

Hi,

I need to distribute a number of presentations to some trainers containing
powerpoint presenatrions for use in their training. It is, however, very
important that the trainers can't edit these presentations. Is there any way
of not having a password for them to open the presentation but one to edit it?

Also, if i did this would they still be able to copy and paste the
information contained in it?

Help!

 

[Guest]

There are few ways to do so. If you are using PowerPoint 2002/XP and above,
you can set password to protect your presentation from modifying.
Go to Tools > Options > Security. Set your password there.
If you are using PowerPoint 2000 and below, this feature isn't supported.
You can though, embed your presentation into MS Word or Excel.

Check this out for more information:
"Password protect a presentation"
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00038.htm
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[Jeff]

How secure is the password one enters in Poweroint? Or to put it another
way, how easy is it to break it?

Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

How secure is the password one enters in Poweroint? Or to put it another
way, how easy is it to break it?

You can buy programs to crack PPT passwords, just as you can for just about
anything else that's password protected ... PDFs, ZIPs, etc.

Who are you trying to protect the presentation from (ie, how curious are they,
how technically sophisticated are they and how badly do they want to break in)?

What are you trying to protect? Information of moderate potential to one or
two competitors or state secrets that will affect the destiny of millions?

If it's at the starting end of both of those scales, then PowerPoint's
protection should be reasonable. The further you move toward the other end of
the scale, the less adequate it looks.

Nothing is totally secure.