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PERFECT!<br />
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Thanks.
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Oh, when there is a change to a shared slide, does that Custom Slide Show need to be updated manually?
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Oh, when there is a change to a shared slide, does that Custom Slide Show need to be updated manually?

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Glad to help. BTW, I meant to say &quot;link to shapes&quot; not &quot;spares&quot;!
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Glad to help. BTW, I meant to say "link to shapes" not "spares"!

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Using PowerPoint (Mac) to Show vs. Hide certain slides<br />
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I need to make three of four presentation which have overlapping slides. Many are the same and some are unique. But I do not want to manage multiple copies of the same slides, especially when I need to start making modifications. What a pain that would be to keep all version current!<br />
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So, I imagine that if I could hide certain slides from viewing for Presentation #2, for example, I could have a partial solution to my versioning problem.<br />
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In fact, the only thing that would cause my plan to fail is if I needed the slides to appear in a different sequence, on one of the &nbsp;presentations.<br />
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Please let me know what facilities exist in PowerPoint (Mac 16.11) to handle multiple presentations with overlapping slides.<br />
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Thanks
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Using PowerPoint (Mac) to Show vs. Hide certain slides

I need to make three of four presentation which have overlapping slides. Many are the same and some are unique. But I do not want to manage multiple copies of the same slides, especially when I need to start making modifications. What a pain that would be to keep all version current!

So, I imagine that if I could hide certain slides from viewing for Presentation #2, for example, I could have a partial solution to my versioning problem.

In fact, the only thing that would cause my plan to fail is if I needed the slides to appear in a different sequence, on one of the  presentations.

Please let me know what facilities exist in PowerPoint (Mac 16.11) to handle multiple presentations with overlapping slides.

Thanks

Using PowerPoint to make multiple presentations with shared slides.

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