PowerPoint Hidden Content and Metadata Check Before Sharing
Find notes, hidden slides, comments and personal data.
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I am about to send a PowerPoint deck outside my organisation. What it contains: [CONTENTS]. Recipients: [RECIPIENTS]. What must stay private: [PRIVATE_ITEMS]. Give a checklist with how to check each [VERIFY menu names] and what to do: speaker notes, hidden slides, comments, off-slide content outside the slide area, document properties (author, company, file paths), embedded workbooks behind charts, tracked history, links to internal files, and previous drafts in the notes. Explain what the document inspection tool does and does not do. Recommend a safer format (a PDF without notes or an exported copy) when the editable file is not needed. Rule: open the final file as a recipient would, in the version you will send, before sending. Cover data protection points: personal data on slides or in notes, and permission to share it [VERIFY local rules]. Write a short message to send with the deck. Order the checks by how often they catch a real problem, with notes and hidden slides first, and tell me which two I should never skip.
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