iappyx
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1 year ago Hi, thanks for your feedback!
With Instrumenta you can already tag slides and select them based on the tag. In the Manage tags screen you can add custom tags to slides and perform actions based on it. Currently you can select slides (and e.g. remove them manually) that have a certain tag.
What you're suggesting is I guess broader. You want to be able to tag individual objects on the slide and perform certain actions based on that? That is possible (and quite easy to implement), but what would be the actions that you would need?
Problem I'm always frustrated when I have to create multiple "versions" of the same ppt file for different audiences [say, one for employees and one for contractors] or different purposes [one for printing, for presenting]. The frustration is because its only some slides that change or need to be hidden or grouped differently.
Solution If we could tag the slides, then we could perform actions on slides/shapes based on which tag they have.....This is based on Microsofts own thought process available at [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/powerpoint/tagging-presentations-slides-shapes]
Alternatives At this point creating text shapes and hiding them on slide or below the slide are kludgey and depend on search capability [manual and hence error-prone]
Additional context Steve Rindsberg of ppttools has created [https://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ01017_Creating_Teacher_-_Student_editions_of_presentations.htm] a freeware add-in that could have served as a proof-of-concept. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with current version of powerpoint.