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Hello,
Unfortunately there is no built-in (in-the-box) capability to save multiple
versions of presentations so that, for example, if accidently delete or
overwrite the most recent version or close a presentation without saving
it, there will be be an older version that you can use. However, if you are
using Windows SharePoint Services and saving your presentations (and other
documents) in a SharePoint document library, you can use SharePoint
Services to enable versioning so that you can go back to previous versions
of the presentation if you accidentally save over and existing presentation.
However, if versioning or some other form of automatically making backup
copies or automatically saving your presentation files directly from
PowerPoint (not requiring SharePoint or some other external document
management technology) is important to you (or anyone else reading this
message), please send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
Microsoft at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible. Each submission should be
a single suggestion (not a list of suggestions).
John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
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