Is there an easy way to flatten a PowerPoint file for secure/protected web posting?

Simplest thing to do might be to save as a PowerPoint Picture Presentation.  This automatically converts each slide to pictures.

For older versions of PowerPoint, there's my PPTools Protect addin.  It's a commercial product but there's a free demo and more info at: http://www.pptools.com/protect

Many people opt to save them as a PDF file or you can export them as PNGs or JPGs, then reimport them into PowerPoint onto individual slides.

Christine

Thanks Christine. We do want it to look like a PowerPoint, so we've been using the Photo Album feature to create what looks like a show with the .jpgs. But I can't figure out how to do that with a widescreen format. I can save the PowerPoint as .jpgs or other format as widescreen, but the Photo Album always formats them as 4:3 slides. I did it manually today - saving the images then manually inserting them back onto each slide, but was hoping there was an easier way.

>> The previous version of power point I had had an option to protect so that it could not be edited

The current version still allows password protection. 

Choose File | Save As | Browse

Click the downward pointing triangle next to TOOLS and you can choose to apply a password to MODIFY.  Users will still be able to open and view the file w/o the password but won't be able to change it.

If that's not it, what option to protect did you previously use?

"...saving the images then manually inserting them back onto each slide, but was hoping there was an easier way."

I have not found an easier way to flatten annotations overlaid onto images. It make accessibility difficult because if I need to create two alt-text descriptions instead of one. Grrrr!