Merging PowerPoint Presentations.

I have a very long power point presentation that is used for a very lengthy
presentation, the number of slides exceeds 200 slides that is due to the fact
that I am using a size 44 font so it can be easily views for a long distant.

The maintains of this huge presentation is a nightmare. as there are some
sections in the presentation is repeated during the presentation, Therefore I
thought about breaking the presentation in to smaller size presentation to
ease its maintenance and then merge them just before presentation time. This
way any section of the huge presentation that is repeatedly used in any other
presentation is stored in one place and used on request.

I thought about writing a dot net application that stores all components of
the long presentations and have a merge button at the bottom which then
merges all section of the presentation into on big one. The merge process
will happen the night before the presentation. I was wondering if this is
achievable in dot net, is there a tool already that takes care of that, or
any other alternatives?

I will be so glad if you can help me with this problem?

PS: I thought about using hyperlink, and have but there was problems with
keeping the location of they hyperlink always up-to-date and if the file name
has changed for any reason the presentation will not continue and it will
cause embarrassment to the presenter.


Many Thanks
Joseph Ghobreal

There are a couple of ideas that come to mind. You could have a menu system
and link back and forth between it and the various presentations or you
could do it as on presentation linking to another seamlessly. Regardless of
how you do it, here is a great tutorial on linking presentations
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm
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"Joseph" wrote in message
...
I have a very long power point presentation that is used for a very lengthy
presentation, the number of slides exceeds 200 slides that is due to the
fact
that I am using a size 44 font so it can be easily views for a long
distant.

The maintains of this huge presentation is a nightmare. as there are some
sections in the presentation is repeated during the presentation,
Therefore I
thought about breaking the presentation in to smaller size presentation to
ease its maintenance and then merge them just before presentation time.
This
way any section of the huge presentation that is repeatedly used in any
other
presentation is stored in one place and used on request.

I thought about writing a dot net application that stores all components
of
the long presentations and have a merge button at the bottom which then
merges all section of the presentation into on big one. The merge process
will happen the night before the presentation. I was wondering if this is
achievable in dot net, is there a tool already that takes care of that, or
any other alternatives?

I will be so glad if you can help me with this problem?

PS: I thought about using hyperlink, and have but there was problems with
keeping the location of they hyperlink always up-to-date and if the file
name
has changed for any reason the presentation will not continue and it will
cause embarrassment to the presenter.


Many Thanks
Joseph Ghobreal

200 slides isn't that bad. In fact, my Sunday presentations usually exceed
this. I suspect that you would benefit from optimizing the presentation so
that the file size is reasonable.

It takes about 30 seconds (without VBA, Dot Net, or Macro) to combine 2
presentations. In the one, click on Insert = Slides from files = Navigate
to your other folder/file and Insert All.


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"Joseph" wrote in message
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I have a very long power point presentation that is used for a very lengthy
presentation, the number of slides exceeds 200 slides that is due to the
fact
that I am using a size 44 font so it can be easily views for a long
distant.

The maintains of this huge presentation is a nightmare. as there are some
sections in the presentation is repeated during the presentation,
Therefore I
thought about breaking the presentation in to smaller size presentation to
ease its maintenance and then merge them just before presentation time.
This
way any section of the huge presentation that is repeatedly used in any
other
presentation is stored in one place and used on request.

I thought about writing a dot net application that stores all components
of
the long presentations and have a merge button at the bottom which then
merges all section of the presentation into on big one. The merge process
will happen the night before the presentation. I was wondering if this is
achievable in dot net, is there a tool already that takes care of that, or
any other alternatives?

I will be so glad if you can help me with this problem?

PS: I thought about using hyperlink, and have but there was problems with
keeping the location of they hyperlink always up-to-date and if the file
name
has changed for any reason the presentation will not continue and it will
cause embarrassment to the presenter.


Many Thanks
Joseph Ghobreal

Hi Bill,
I thought about your solution but in order to be effective from my point of
view I will have to break the 200 slides presentation in to 30
sub-presentation, and then have some sort of a script or an application that
I run to merge them automatically into one presentation. If for example a
slide in sub-presentation number 18 has changed I will re-run the script
again and the 200 slides presentation will be recreated again.

I hope I have explained myself properly.... I also hope you have more ideas
on how to achive this.

Cheers
Joseph




I thought about that option but I acttualy want to do it using a
programmatical solution where I can create these presentations and pass them
on to

"Bill Dilworth" wrote:

200 slides isn't that bad. In fact, my Sunday presentations usually exceed
this. I suspect that you would benefit from optimizing the presentation so
that the file size is reasonable.

It takes about 30 seconds (without VBA, Dot Net, or Macro) to combine 2
presentations. In the one, click on Insert = Slides from files = Navigate
to your other folder/file and Insert All.


--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
billdilworth.mvps.org
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint
yahoo. FAQ pages. They answer most
com of our questions.
www.pptfaq.com
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"Joseph" wrote in message
...
I have a very long power point presentation that is used for a very lengthy
presentation, the number of slides exceeds 200 slides that is due to the
fact
that I am using a size 44 font so it can be easily views for a long
distant.

The maintains of this huge presentation is a nightmare. as there are some
sections in the presentation is repeated during the presentation,
Therefore I
thought about breaking the presentation in to smaller size presentation to
ease its maintenance and then merge them just before presentation time.
This
way any section of the huge presentation that is repeatedly used in any
other
presentation is stored in one place and used on request.

I thought about writing a dot net application that stores all components
of
the long presentations and have a merge button at the bottom which then
merges all section of the presentation into on big one. The merge process
will happen the night before the presentation. I was wondering if this is
achievable in dot net, is there a tool already that takes care of that, or
any other alternatives?

I will be so glad if you can help me with this problem?

PS: I thought about using hyperlink, and have but there was problems with
keeping the location of they hyperlink always up-to-date and if the file
name
has changed for any reason the presentation will not continue and it will
cause embarrassment to the presenter.


Many Thanks
Joseph Ghobreal

Hi Michael,
thanks for your thoughts, I actually thought about this option but there is
an issues with the location and the name of the file, if any of that changes
the presentation will collapse.

Cheers
Joseph


"Michael Koerner" wrote:

There are a couple of ideas that come to mind. You could have a menu system
and link back and forth between it and the various presentations or you
could do it as on presentation linking to another seamlessly. Regardless of
how you do it, here is a great tutorial on linking presentations
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm
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"Joseph" wrote in message
...
I have a very long power point presentation that is used for a very lengthy
presentation, the number of slides exceeds 200 slides that is due to the
fact
that I am using a size 44 font so it can be easily views for a long
distant.

The maintains of this huge presentation is a nightmare. as there are some
sections in the presentation is repeated during the presentation,
Therefore I
thought about breaking the presentation in to smaller size presentation to
ease its maintenance and then merge them just before presentation time.
This
way any section of the huge presentation that is repeatedly used in any
other
presentation is stored in one place and used on request.

I thought about writing a dot net application that stores all components
of
the long presentations and have a merge button at the bottom which then
merges all section of the presentation into on big one. The merge process
will happen the night before the presentation. I was wondering if this is
achievable in dot net, is there a tool already that takes care of that, or
any other alternatives?

I will be so glad if you can help me with this problem?

PS: I thought about using hyperlink, and have but there was problems with
keeping the location of they hyperlink always up-to-date and if the file
name
has changed for any reason the presentation will not continue and it will
cause embarrassment to the presenter.


Many Thanks
Joseph Ghobreal

That is true. That is when Steve Rindsberg comes to the rescue with his fix
links utility http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/FAQ00035.htm

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"Joseph" wrote in message
...
Hi Michael,
thanks for your thoughts, I actually thought about this option but there
is
an issues with the location and the name of the file, if any of that
changes
the presentation will collapse.

Cheers
Joseph


"Michael Koerner" wrote:

There are a couple of ideas that come to mind. You could have a menu
system
and link back and forth between it and the various presentations or you
could do it as on presentation linking to another seamlessly. Regardless
of
how you do it, here is a great tutorial on linking presentations
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm
--
Please post all follow-up questions/replies to the newsgroup
Email unless specifically requested will not be opened
Do Provide The Version Of PowerPoint You Are Using
Do Not Post Attachments In This Newsgroup
Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


"Joseph" wrote in message
...
I have a very long power point presentation that is used for a very
lengthy
presentation, the number of slides exceeds 200 slides that is due to
the
fact
that I am using a size 44 font so it can be easily views for a long
distant.

The maintains of this huge presentation is a nightmare. as there are
some
sections in the presentation is repeated during the presentation,
Therefore I
thought about breaking the presentation in to smaller size presentation
to
ease its maintenance and then merge them just before presentation time.
This
way any section of the huge presentation that is repeatedly used in any
other
presentation is stored in one place and used on request.

I thought about writing a dot net application that stores all
components
of
the long presentations and have a merge button at the bottom which then
merges all section of the presentation into on big one. The merge
process
will happen the night before the presentation. I was wondering if this
is
achievable in dot net, is there a tool already that takes care of that,
or
any other alternatives?

I will be so glad if you can help me with this problem?

PS: I thought about using hyperlink, and have but there was problems
with
keeping the location of they hyperlink always up-to-date and if the
file
name
has changed for any reason the presentation will not continue and it
will
cause embarrassment to the presenter.


Many Thanks
Joseph Ghobreal