How detailed? How intelligent does the program need to be?
You can do visual comparisons quickly and fairly easily without any cost or
additional software. But if you need an automated solution, than the
program will need to be able to know that there is only a single space
difference between "This is a test" and "This is a test" (stupid code would
only tell you they are not the same after the 5th character instead of being
able to analysis the differences). So, it will probably need to be pretty
smart, but how smart?. Does it matter if the textbox/image is one pixel out
of place? If not, what about 2 pixels? Is a similar color drop shadow
close enough, or does it have to be exact match only? Animation timings?
Image contrast or cropping? Link paths?
I have not ever run across this type of software for PowerPoint, but I'm
sure you could hire a competent VBA programmer to write it for you. If you
are using this on just one or two presentations, perhaps a visual looking
over is better than busting the budget.
To compare two slide shows side by side, open each of them in PowerPoint.
The second one opened will appear over the first, that's ok. Now under the
Windows pulldown menu, there is an arrange all option that will display both
presentations at the same time in the edit mode. Close enough?
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Bill Dilworth
Microsoft PPT MVP Team
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