Workarounds to protect masters?

[greggbeck2000]

Is there still no way to protect master slides (v2002) while allowing
users to edit slides? Any workarounds you geniuses came up with I may
have missed?

Did v2003 incorporate such a feature?

Thanks.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Is there still no way to protect master slides (v2002) while allowing
users to edit slides? Any workarounds you geniuses came up with I may
have missed?

Not built in, no. But since you're talking addins, you could write one with an
event handler that checks for the selection event, determines whether the
selected shape's .Parent is a slide master and, if so, de-selects the
selection.

Not foolproof but it'd keep most users out of trouble.

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

No feature to lock master slide content/positioning/formatting/etc. is in
any version of PPT. The ability to password protect the entire presentation
with up to two passwords; one for viewing, one for editing. But the editing
password option allows the entire presentation, including the Master slides,
to be edited.

Be sure to send Microsoft your request at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp It is the best way to
'encourage' new features of being added.

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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
www.tlccreative.com
troy at tlccreative dot com
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[Gregg]

Hmmm. That's interesting. Could the selection event check if the object
is specifically the title or body placeholder, or another named object
in the master? My thought is to maybe allow users to add objects to the
master, but not modify objects already existing.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hmmm. That's interesting. Could the selection event check if the object
is specifically the title or body placeholder, or another named object
in the master? My thought is to maybe allow users to add objects to the
master, but not modify objects already existing.

Sure could. Fairly simply too.