Developers love code… and slide decks! When I give talks, a lot of attendees ask for the slide deck afterwards. And I must admit, I do exactly the same: it’s a great reference when working with the technology afterwards, some parts of it still remain in your brain, so it’s an easy way to quickly get more info on a certain subject.
That’s one of the main reasons I post them all on my blog (the second reason is that perhaps you are also speaking on a topic covered in one of my talks and you would like to use the slides. You’re absolutely welcome to do so :) ).
However, if you’re like me, during the preparation of a talk, I tend to add quite a few notes in my slide decks. While there are no great secrets in there, it’s most of the time best to remove them. With previous versions of Powerpoint, removing these comments either needed to be done manually or either by a macro (at least, that’s the way I did it, I’m no Powerpoint savvy, mind you!).
Now, in Powerpoint 2007, it’s quite easy to do it automatically.
Go to the Office button and click on “Prepare”. Within the “Prepare” menu, select the “Inspect document” option.
The window that now opens, called the Document Inspector, allows you to search your slide deck for “personal information” like notes.
Click on Inspect. As you can see, my deck still contains some notes and personal document properties (probably my name). You can click on Remove all to remove all the comments and notes from the Powerpoint 2007 slide deck.
