How do I concatenate powerpoint files together?

[T Bird]

Can I simply concatenate PowerPoint files together to produce a mega
presentation???

I'm trying to build an app which will let a user pick and chose which
sub-presentations he/she wants to give ... from this set of base PowerPoint
files,
I'd like to produce one PowerPoint file which is derived from selected base
Powerpoint files ... can I merely concatenate the files together (probably
not),
or is there a way to extract each slide from each of the selected base
PowerPoint files and copy these to the aggregated PowerPoint file?

Thanks for your assistance.

 

[Michael Koerner]

This is the best that your going to get with the current versions of PowerPoint
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm

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Can I simply concatenate PowerPoint files together to produce a mega
presentation???

I'm trying to build an app which will let a user pick and chose which
sub-presentations he/she wants to give ... from this set of base PowerPoint
files,
I'd like to produce one PowerPoint file which is derived from selected base
Powerpoint files ... can I merely concatenate the files together (probably
not),
or is there a way to extract each slide from each of the selected base
PowerPoint files and copy these to the aggregated PowerPoint file?

Thanks for your assistance.

 

[Mike M.]

You can use a simple VB app (or c++) to allow the user to view available
presentations, select them and merge them into a new pesentations. Here is
a link that shows you how to open a presentation in VB. Use the
InsertSlidesFromFile method of the presentation to concatenate each selected
presentation into the new one.
http://skp.mvps.org/vb/vbppt003.htm

HTH

 

[Mike M.]

Well I forgot one little thing. Starting with PPT 2002 MS added a "feature"
where the copy of slides (or InsertFromFile) does not copy the source
formatting (you lose backgrounds and stuff). Shyam has graciously provided
code to manually do this.
Check here:
http://skp.mvps.org/pptxp001.htm