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I'm sure using tagging on slides could be used for many purposes.
I'm a trainer and I don't want to provide printouts for all my students. At the moment I have two awkward options:
In fact the way I now do it is to hide the slides ready for printing and save the powerpoint to another filename and then ungroup all slides for presenting. But then I have two versions and it gets confusing....
What would be great is if I could tag slides and to be able to filter slides by the tag. Then you could bulk change slides to hide and unhide. Or better still, allow the ability to print by tags.
I could imagine tagging would help in other situations where bulk editing is needed.
Or maybe you could tag a slide for its completion status e.g. draft, ready for review, complete etc
Or maybe tag priority so you know to spend more time developing certain slides.
There is so much potential in the world of tagging...
What do others think?
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Looks really cool although I couldn't get it to work in the latest Windows PowerPoint.
Also, after reading the description I wasn't sure it was what I'm after as I want to hide slides, rather than objects.
I understand Steve. I tried it on "Windows 10 1 - Nov 2015 (11.31193.0)"
p.s. I'd pay/contribute for a slides one.
Thanks
Joe
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Tagging is indeed tremendously useful in PowerPoint. And has been since Office 97 when it first appeared. Or rather didn't appear ... one of it's most useful features is that tags are not exposed to the user. You need to write some VBA to use/display them.
There's a bit of info about that here:
Working with Tags (and a bit about Functions)
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00815_Working_with_Tags_-and_a_bit_about_Functions-.htm
And as it happens, I have a pre-rolled add-in that does pretty much what you're after. Free, no less.
Creating Teacher / Student editions of presentations
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01017_Creating_Teacher_-_Student_editions_of_presentations.htm
What version of PPT did you have problems with and what were the problems?
It's a freebie, so I can't always keep on top of every new quirk PPT throws at it, but I'd like to know; sometimes the fixes for these things are quite simple.
As to shapes vs slides, you're correct. I'll add that to the "to do" list, as it'd be a good idea.