502 Chapter 17 Review and Deliver Presentations
Finalizing Presentations
These days, many presentations are delivered electronically, either by e-mail or from a
Web site. As you develop a presentation, it can accumulate information that you might
not want in the final version, such as the names of people who worked on the presenta-
tion, comments that reviewers have added to the file, or hidden text about status and
assumptions. If your presentation will never leave your computer, you don’t have to
worry that it might contain something that you would rather other people did not see.
However, if the presentation file is going to be shared with other people, you will want to
remove this identifying and tracking information before you distribute the presentation.
To examine some of the information attached to a presentation, you can display the
properties on the Info page of the Backstage view. You can change or remove some of
the properties in the Properties pane, or you can display the Document Panel or the
Properties dialog box by clicking Properties at the top of the pane and clicking the
option you want. However, to automate the process of finding and removing all extra-
neous and potentially confidential information, PowerPoint provides a tool called the
Document Inspector.The Document Inspector removes many different types of information.