Hi,
There's more! OLE or object linking and, well, you know!
A Presentation Slide (sldx) is really an object type that can be shared with
applications, but no other slides can be added to it. Try these...
Insert an existing presentation that contains more than one slide into a new
presentation as an object. Right click on the embedded presentation, go to
Slide Object, Convert. You will see, among the options, in addition to your
current Microsoft Office PowerPoint Presentation is a Microsoft Office
PowerPoint Slide! You can convert it to a single slide but will lose all
your other slides!
Or you can insert a new Microsoft Office PowerPoint Slide all by itself.
Now...
If you insert a Slide alone, you can only ever have one slide in it. Even if
you edit that presentation, you cannot add a second slide. I guess that is
the type that is offered. This is also available in previous version, btw.
The opening of the text file renamed is really only a trick based on file
associations. But it's a good way to find out which application will respond
to it. BTW, if you build the text file and insert it into PowerPoint as a
sldx object, you cannot add any other slides to it! But if you double click
the sldx file, you can, because it is no longer a Presentation Slide but
opens in PowerPoint as a File. Clear as mud, huh!
Anyway I guess it is a way of inserting a single slide that cannot be added
to.
The sldm one is simply a macro enable version of the same thing.
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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
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