Protect Powerpoint 1

[Lee24]

Is there any way I can protect my Powerpoint presentations so that no one can edit them apart from me!


Thanks In Advance


LC

 

[ronhatcher]

One way to protect your presentation is to save and close it. Then using Windows Explorer, locate the file, right-click on it and select Properties. In the Properties dialog box, click the Read Only checkbox.

This is not foolproof, of course, but nothing else is either.

 

[thatrenowned]

As well as setting it as read only, you can save it a .pps file. This is a PowerPoint file which autoruns when double clicked. If you launch PowerPoint and open the file, you can still edit it though. You'll just have to hope that the people you work with can't figure this out.

 

[DaleWatson123321]

My 2 cents worth...

Obviously Microsoft needs to include this (Password Protection) on their "TO DO list" for their next release.

And "naturally" someone at Microsoft is assigned the task of monitoring these forums for "feedback from the end-user". After all, they DO consider the end-user their "highest priority" !!!! ...don't they ? ? ?

So, the next release will be "GUARANTEED" to have this "loophole" fixed. Right ? ? ? ? ?

Regards, ...Dale Watson dwatson@bsi.gov.mb.ca

 

[Hasit]

Ditto Dale's comments. However, one or two other options include:

1. Don't send out your raw slides, instead send out print screens of your raw slides. That way, no can edit the content.

2. Take a look at this link:

http://www.mvps.org/skp/securepack/index.htm

Its gonna cost you money ($50), but it protects powerpoint files!

 

[DaleWatson123321]

Good tip ...worthy of a STAR !!!

Thanks,

...Dale Watson dwatson@bsi.gov.mb.ca

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Another method: if you have Adobe Acrobat (full version, not the reader) and no animation, you can convert the file to a .PDF and lock it down that way.

Obviously, this is not perfect. PowerPoint 2002, by the way, FINALLY has this ability (though they still cannot get Org Chart right...)