Is there any way to lock part of a PowerPoint Presentation?

[Jodi]

I want to send out a generic presentation for our sales force to use. I want
most of it locked, but a couple areas unlocked so they can modify to suit the
customers.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Unfortunately not. If the portion you want them to access is all in the same area of the presentation, you could have two presentations that link. One protected and one not. Also depends on the version of PowerPoint your using.

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Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


I want to send out a generic presentation for our sales force to use. I want
most of it locked, but a couple areas unlocked so they can modify to suit the
customers.

 

[Sandy]

What Michael said + consider creating (multiple) master slides for the
elements/slides you don't want edited. This is not full proof -- anyone can
go into a master and edit it -- but it might slow down your sales force's
desire to edit since it takes an additional step to do.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Jodi

Steve Rindsberg of PPTools.com demo-ed something like this at PPTLive '08.
Not sure how far he had got with the project, how much it costs or any other
relevant details I'm afraid but he'll be along here later or you can contact
him through his website.

Lucy

 

[Lucy Thomson]

2008? I've heard of lost Weekends in New Orleans, but this is a bit much.
<g>

D'oh! Must stay off these lunchtime beers...