When you’re working on a presentation, it’s important to keep track of the changes that are taking place in the presentation. This can help you make sure that your presentation is accurate and up-to-date. To do this, you can use the following tools:
- The Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer: This tool allows you to see the changes that are taking place in a presentation as they happen. You can also use it to make changes to the presentation, and then save the changes so that they are permanent.
- The Microsoft PowerPoint Editor: This tool allows you to make changes to a presentation, and then save them as a file. You can then use this file in other applications, such as Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop, without having to worry about the original presentation being corrupted.
- The Microsoft PowerPoint Formatting Wizard: This tool allows you to change some of the details of a presentation, such as how text is formatted, how images are displayed, and how slides are displayed.
While Microsoft 365 subscribers can do real-time collaboration on PowerPoint presentations, some people prefer working independently and having that work reviewed and edited at a later date. Here’s how you can see and track what changed when the presentation comes back to you.
To track the changes that the reviewer of your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation made, you’ll need these two things:
A copy of the source file A copy of the reviewed file
With those two items on hand, go ahead and open the reviewed file. Once open, go to the “Review” tab, then select “Compare” in the “Compare” group.
Now locate and select the source file that contains the original content before the review took place. Once chosen, click “Merge.”
Once merged, the “Revisions” pane will open on the right-hand side of the PowerPoint window. This pane contains all of the details of the differences between the source file and the edited file. If a particular slide doesn’t have any edits made to it, PowerPoint will tell you in the “Revisions” pane, and it will even tell you which slide contains the next set of changes.
If you’re on a slide that contains any changes, they’ll appear in the “Slide Changes” box of the “Revisions” pane.
By clicking the line that appears, a box containing all the changes that were made to that specific content will be displayed.
You can see which changes were made by whom, and you can decide to keep the source content or accept the changes by checking/unchecking the box next to each item in the changelog.
If you want to revert the content in this block back to the source content, check the box next to “All Changes to Content Placeholder 2.”
Repeat these steps for each slide that contains changes in the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
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