Search for new slides

[SV]

We have many standard slides that appear in various sales presentations
but are very interested to find what has been created as NEW material.

Ideally I would like to create an XML type marker and be able to search
for <title>A specific slide title</title> using the windows search tool
or find withing PPT.

I could add <title></title> to the template and then use a macro to
copy the file and delete pages that had content in the 'XML' tag
i.e.<title>Content</title>.

Is there anyway to automatically copy the slide title and copy it
elswhere on the slide as the "jam" in the <title></title> sandwich???
This could avoid manual operations!

If I can do this then I can track how usage of a slide propagates to
another presentation and 'recall' slides that are out-of-date. I would
also be able to look for new slides without opening every presentation
(2000 p.a.)!

Steve

 

[SV]

Sorry but I can't see the code! Is there a trick to this?

 

[Glen Millar]

Steve is posting in invisible ink. Great for secret messages but doesn't
help the public much <vbg>.

 

[SV]

I have been think about this problem a little more ... The problem is
to get authors to identify the new slides they have added to otherwise
standard presentations. It has to be a really simple technique!
Perhaps I could get them to use the reviewing toolbar to add a
'post-it' to new slides. The post-it could be empty but at least I
could spot new material quickly.

Is there a way to detect the presence of a reviewing note in a
presentation? I could simply look through the presentation but is
there a way of detecting (& counting) reviewing notes from "outside"
the file?

 

[SV]

I have some problems in trying to understand in what form this
invisible tag would take?

Is it some very specific text using say a pseudo XML format?
"<marker:file:date>" I know that I can put text on the notes pages and
it will be found by our full text search tool "Open Text". I worry
that "tag text" on the slide itself would be removed.

Alternatively could it be something in the files properties which would
allow me to say that the source was file "XYYZF". I assume this would
be overwritten if two files are combined?

I like the idea of counting shapes & the length of the total text
string on the page. If somone takes the same shapes and text and
simply reorganises them on the page it doesn't really concern me (their
time not mine!) but I would like to know if they have changed the text.