Tailored presentations?

JackRosieMaisie · External Since: Nov 03, 2009 Posts: 1

I would like to provide our sales team (who are not particularly tech-savvy)
with a Powerpoint presentation tailored to their product/geographic needs.

But there are many permutations so it would be great if I could produce a
master presentation with a page for each and every product and then the sales
person could decide which pages to include/exclude via a simple drag-and-drop
or tickbox to produce their own tailored presentation.

I would keep the master presentation read-only and up-to-date and in a
single location and really minimise my workload!

Does any know if this can be done in Powerpoint or with an add-in?

I would appreciate any help.

David Marcovitz · External Since: Jan 21, 2009 Posts: 46

There are a variety of ways to do this. The simplest is to use Custom Shows.
You could create custom shows for each of the sales people. Then, you could
have a menu page where a saleperson simply clicks on his/her name which
links to the custom show. It's not quite drag and drop (and is possibly not
easy enough for your salespeople to do themselves), but it should be easy
for you to set up.

An alternative is for each person to simply hide the slides he/she doesn't
want to show.

--David

On 11/3/09 5:03 AM, in article
F1ED8320-5A01-49D6-804D-8DC36E18A868.TakeThisOut@microsoft.com, "JackRosieMaisie"
<JackRosieMaisie.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I would like to provide our sales team (who are not particularly tech-savvy)
> with a Powerpoint presentation tailored to their product/geographic needs.
>
> But there are many permutations so it would be great if I could produce a
> master presentation with a page for each and every product and then the sales
> person could decide which pages to include/exclude via a simple drag-and-drop
> or tickbox to produce their own tailored presentation.
>
> I would keep the master presentation read-only and up-to-date and in a
> single location and really minimise my workload!
>
> Does any know if this can be done in Powerpoint or with an add-in?
>
> I would appreciate any help.

--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

Steve Rindsberg · External Since: Apr 02, 2004 Posts: 8464

In article <F1ED8320-5A01-49D6-804D-8DC36E18A868.DeleteThis@microsoft.com>, JackRosieMaisie
wrote:
> I would like to provide our sales team (who are not particularly tech-savvy)
> with a Powerpoint presentation tailored to their product/geographic needs.
>
> But there are many permutations so it would be great if I could produce a
> master presentation with a page for each and every product and then the sales
> person could decide which pages to include/exclude via a simple drag-and-drop
> or tickbox to produce their own tailored presentation.
>
> I would keep the master presentation read-only and up-to-date and in a
> single location and really minimise my workload!
>
> Does any know if this can be done in Powerpoint or with an add-in?

It can. There are several approaches ... for example, google "slide library" or
similar terms. PPT can also insert slides from other PPT files; it'd take a wee
bit 'o training to get the users accustomed to doing this, but it shouldn't be
all that hard.

We have a different solution to the problem, one that lets the users choose
slides from dialog boxes that give them previews of the slides before picking
them and also adds a whole lot of other useful features.

If interested in a no-obligation demo, give me a shout.
Email: steve at-sign pptools dot com ... make the obvious changes. <g>

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Old in Dallas · External Since: Nov 01, 2009 Posts: 2

Jack - the easiest way would be to put all the slides in the program and then
use the "hide" setting on the slides they don't want to show.

"JackRosieMaisie" wrote:

> I would like to provide our sales team (who are not particularly tech-savvy)
> with a Powerpoint presentation tailored to their product/geographic needs.
>
> But there are many permutations so it would be great if I could produce a
> master presentation with a page for each and every product and then the sales
> person could decide which pages to include/exclude via a simple drag-and-drop
> or tickbox to produce their own tailored presentation.
>
> I would keep the master presentation read-only and up-to-date and in a
> single location and really minimise my workload!
>
> Does any know if this can be done in Powerpoint or with an add-in?
>
> I would appreciate any help.