Tracking "the wrong" changes in power point

[Guest]

I have tried to search for someone else with a similar problam as myself, but
with no luck. I send my original ppt for review, but the changes that appear
to be tracked are only on the master!

Can someone please advice? I am about to send a load of training courses for
review, and it would be nice to have this working properly. I am running
Outlook, and PPT version 2002

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have tried to search for someone else with a similar problam as myself, but
with no luck. I send my original ppt for review, but the changes that appear
to be tracked are only on the master!

Can you explain what you're seeing in more detail?
Are you sure the reviewers are making changes other than to the master?

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Sorry, no, they do not make changes to the master. I have tried sending a
presentation where they tell me they make a change on a slide, e.g. add some
regular text. In the reviewed version I receive, every single slide has
apparently been changed . In the reviewer pane it says that the next change
is on the master. The change that I know they made can not be seen.

Very strange. Have read and reread the help file, and I do get the question

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,
Sorry, no, they do not make changes to the master. I have tried sending a
presentation where they tell me they make a change on a slide, e.g. add some
regular text. In the reviewed version I receive, every single slide has
apparently been changed . In the reviewer pane it says that the next change
is on the master. The change that I know they made can not be seen.

Very strange. Have read and reread the help file, and I do get the question
on merge etc. But it appears my original is merged onto the reviewed version
or something.

Suggestion: create a new presentation from scratch as a test and send it around for
review just as you've done with this one. See if the same problem occurs. I'd send
it to one person at a time and see how each one comes back rather than doing a round
robin affair, especially if your reviewers are on different versions of PPT.

Reason for this odd bit of motion: sometimes presentations get corrupted during
review; my hunch is that it's more likely when the presentation wanders between
reviewers using different versions.

If the test presentation makes it out and back ok but the real one doesn't, we may
be able to do a little surgery on the real one to fix it.

 

[Guest]

Hi Steve,

Thank you for this attempt - it got me a little further, but not quite
there. However, I think I have discovered the source of the problem:

There seems to be something fishy with the template, because it worked
perfectly well when sending a ppt created 100% from scratch using one of the
standard design templates. However, all my presentations have been created as
new versions through "save as" and built from there, so I have most likely
inherited properties. My presentations seem to be stuck as me *not* being the
originator. Is there any way I can perform "surgery" on the files so I can
change the properties of the file to look as is created by me from scratch?

I am afraid the company template I am using is not created by pro's...

Thanks in advance! You have been very helpful.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Have a look here:

Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm

Down toward the bottom there's some VBA code that does a little mano-a-mano with the
review information stored in a presentation (deletes it or makes it visible so you can
give the manual whack).