Clueless on Collaboration

[Eric]

I am editing a colleagues presentation but I can't see the changes I am
making and wonder if she will be able to see them when she opens the
document. We are working on something on a shared drive. I had imagined that
the document markup functions work similar to they way they do in Word, where
you see changes as crossed out text, etc. Is this not built in to PPT or am
I missing something.

Thanks.

Eric

 

[Echo S]

PPT's reviewing tools don't work the way Word's do. You won't see the
markups -- the strikethrough on the text, etc. -- but there is a revisions
pane that will list these. Turn it on on the Reviewing Toolbar
(View/Toolbars/Reviewing).

It's been awhile since I used the reviewing tools in PPT, but I thought that
you'd have to email the presentation to a colleague to "kick off" the
reviewing process. According to the MS assistance articles, though, that
doesn't seem to be the case.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=DC,EM,ES,FX,HA%
2CHP%2CQZ%2CRC%2CTC%2CXT&Query=reviewing&App=PP

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP030844751033.aspx

So I guess if I were in this situation, I'd see if I could turn on the
revisions task pane.

 

[Eric G]

THanks for the response. I opened the reviewing pane and while I do see
references to the comments I inserted, I do not see any of the content
changes.

Eric

PPT's reviewing tools don't work the way Word's do. You won't see the
markups -- the strikethrough on the text, etc. -- but there is a revisions
pane that will list these. Turn it on on the Reviewing Toolbar
(View/Toolbars/Reviewing).

It's been awhile since I used the reviewing tools in PPT, but I thought that
you'd have to email the presentation to a colleague to "kick off" the
reviewing process. According to the MS assistance articles, though, that
doesn't seem to be the case.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=DC,EM,ES,FX,HA%
2CHP%2CQZ%2CRC%2CTC%2CXT&Query=reviewing&App=PP

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP030844751033.aspx

So I guess if I were in this situation, I'd see if I could turn on the
revisions task pane.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I am editing a colleagues presentation but I can't see the changes I am
making and wonder if she will be able to see them when she opens the
document. We are working on something on a shared drive. I had imagined that
the document markup functions work similar to they way they do in Word, where
you see changes as crossed out text, etc. Is this not built in to PPT or am
I missing something.

Thanks.

Eric

 

[Echo S]

Wow, I don't know, then. I think you should be seeing content change info.

You might try an experiment, though -- do a File/Send to/Mail Recipient for
Review and mail a test file to your colleague. Have her open it in Outlook,
make a couple of changes, and mail it back to you using File/Send
to/Original Sender.

Do you see content changes in the reviewing pane now?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

THanks for the response. I opened the reviewing pane and while I do see
references to the comments I inserted, I do not see any of the content
changes.

Eric

PPT's reviewing tools don't work the way Word's do. You won't see the
markups -- the strikethrough on the text, etc. -- but there is a revisions
pane that will list these. Turn it on on the Reviewing Toolbar
(View/Toolbars/Reviewing).

It's been awhile since I used the reviewing tools in PPT, but I thought that
you'd have to email the presentation to a colleague to "kick off" the
reviewing process. According to the MS assistance articles, though, that
doesn't seem to be the case.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=DC,EM,ES,FX,HA%
2CHP%2CQZ%2CRC%2CTC%2CXT&Query=reviewing&App=PP

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP030844751033.aspx

So I guess if I were in this situation, I'd see if I could turn on the
revisions task pane.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I am editing a colleagues presentation but I can't see the changes I am
making and wonder if she will be able to see them when she opens the
document. We are working on something on a shared drive. I had

imagined
that

the document markup functions work similar to they way they do in

Word,
where

you see changes as crossed out text, etc. Is this not built in to PPT

or
am

I missing something.

Thanks.

Eric