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Inspecting a presentation for stray comments

Inspecting a presentation for stray comments

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Inspecting a presentation for stray comments

- If you want to reuse and share a presentation, you don't want draft markup on your presentation anywhere. PowerPoint understands this, and makes it very easy to remove markup before you finalize it. To check for markup, select File from the ribbon tab, click Info, select Check for Issues, and then select Inspect Document. You can choose what things you want to inspect your document for, for example, comments and ink annotations. You may have ink annotations that you saved from a previous presentation. You can also search for embedded documents, such as Excel files, if you pasted in table data. I showed you in earlier videos your paste options and how they can pose a security risk if you embed an entire Excel document in there. The Document Inspector can find these documents. Finally, you can check for presentation notes. You might not want speaker notes in there if you're going to be sending it out to somebody else, as the speaker notes are private to you only. I'll click Inspect…

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