Protect Slides

Available from Version: - 

Operating System: Windows 

empower® Add-in: Content Enablement

You can protect your slides or whole presentations from being edited using the slide protection offered by empower®.

Important

The slide protection is primarily used to inform other users that the slide should not be edited. Therefore, the protection can be bypassed by other users.

Note

The slide protection does not have any impact on the saving functionalities in empower®.

Note

The slide protection is only available in PowerPoint.

To apply slide protection to one or multiple slides, follow the following steps:

  1. Select the slide(s) you want to protect in your presentation.

  2. In the tab Home, navigate to the group empower and click on the lower part of the split button Library (Figure 1303, “Button Library”).

Figure 1303. Button Library

Button Library

  1. In the drop-down menu, choose the option Slide Protection (Figure 1304, “Option Slide Protection”).

    A dialog box opens.

Figure 1304. Option Slide Protection

Option Slide Protection

  1. In this dialog box, choose if you want to apply the slide protection to all slides in the presentation or to the selected slide(s) (Figure 1305, “Slide Protection Options” (1)).

  2. Optionally, you can add a password to further protect the slide. To do so, enter the password into the input field and then repeat the password (Figure 1305, “Slide Protection Options” (2)).

  3. If you want to protect your charts permanently, switch the toggle button for Protect charts permanently to On (Figure 1305, “Slide Protection Options” (3)).

Figure 1305. Slide Protection Options

Slide Protection Options

  1. If you have finished, click on the button OK (Figure 1306, “Button OK to Protect a Slide”).

Figure 1306. Button OK to Protect a Slide

Button OK to Protect a Slide

Important

If you switch the toggle button for Protect charts permanently to On, charts will be converted to images. They cannot be edited anymore and this action cannot be reverted.

Therefore, make sure to save the slides to the empower® Library without slide protection in advance.

Important

Slides are only protected if empower® is installed.

Slide protection cannot be removed in empower® Versions lower than and including 9.3.13.

Note

Alternatively, you can open the context menu for a slide in the slide pane on the left-hand side and choose the option Slide Protection.

Remove Slide Protection

To remove the slide protection, follow the following steps:

  1. Select the slide(s) you want to remove the slide protection from in your presentation.

  2. Navigate to the group empower and click on the lower part of the split button Library.

  3. Click on the option Slide Protection.

    A dialog box opens.

  1. Here, choose if you want to remove the slide protection only from the selected slides or from all protected slides in the presentation (Figure 1307, “Dialog Box Unprotect Slides” (1)).

  2. If a password has been set for the protected slide(s), enter the password into the input field (Figure 1307, “Dialog Box Unprotect Slides” (2)).

    If no password has been set, the input field is not displayed.

Figure 1307. Dialog Box Unprotect Slides

Dialog Box Unprotect Slides

  1. Then, click on the button OK (Figure 1308, “Button OK to Unprotect Slides”).

Figure 1308. Button OK to Unprotect Slides

Button OK to Unprotect Slides

Note

Alternatively, you can open the same dialog box via the context menu of a slide in the slide pane or using the option Unprotect. This option appears when you click into a protected slide (Figure 1309, “Option Unprotect”).

Figure 1309. Option Unprotect

Option Unprotect

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