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?
Comments (6)
Can't you customize slideshows ? I think there was an option to create custom slideshows.
In OpenOffice Impress, you can define custom slide shows in the slide shows menu. Should be the same with Powerpoint.
On the menu bar, 'Slide Show', and select 'Custom Shows'. Works on Powerpoint 2003, and maybe earlier.
Ah, Aspect-Oriented Presenting at last...
So 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 :)
Write a VBA macro inside your slideshow to automate the showing/hiding of subsets of slides. Should be fairly easy...