March 23, 2008
PowerPoint feature request
I'm currently writing a brand new presentation (more on this later) and I find myself in need of a feature I had never thought of before.
I'd like to create two versions of this presentation: one that fits in forty-five minutes and one in two hours, the longer version being a superset of the shorter one: it just contains a few additional slides here and there.
Is there any other way for me to do this besides having two separate files with a lot of slides duplicated?
Ideally, I'd like to be able to put my slides in groups: some will be in the "short" group and other will be in both the "short" and "long" groups. When I start the presentation, I tell the software which group I am showing today (this idea will undoubtedely sound familiar to TestNG users :-)).
The closest I could find in PowerPoint is by hiding/showing individual slides, which is really impractical.
Does anyone have a better solution with either PowerPoint, Keynote or even Google Presentation?
Can't you customize slideshows ?
I think there was an option to create custom slideshows.
Posted by: Antoine at March 23, 2008 10:09 AMIn OpenOffice Impress, you can define custom slide shows in the slide shows menu. Should be the same with Powerpoint.
Posted by: Antoine at March 23, 2008 10:12 AMOn the menu bar, 'Slide Show', and select 'Custom Shows'. Works on Powerpoint 2003, and maybe earlier.
Posted by: Terry at March 23, 2008 12:43 PMAh, Aspect-Oriented Presenting at last...
Posted by: Alex Miller at March 24, 2008 10:33 AMSo Cedric, From the icon of Powerpoint you have, I assume you are using Office for Mac. Have you gotten used to the idea of trying to resize windows only on the bottom right corner? ;)
I couldn't stand it, so I am running Vista in boot camp :)
Posted by: Deva at March 25, 2008 05:40 PMWrite a VBA macro inside your slideshow to automate the showing/hiding of subsets of slides. Should be fairly easy...
Posted by: Mike at April 3, 2008 04:20 PM