In slide certain parts should not editable

[rajaron]

Hi All,



I want to create certain templates in Power point where the user can edit the content area but not other areas like Company logo cannot be removed or edited. If the template has photo, user cannot change it.

I have seen in certain places but not sure how to achieve this.

any help will be appreciated?

[Hani]

You can use this plugin for PowerPoint.. It's very useful for your issue:

http://officeone.mvps.org/shapelocker/shapelocker.html

[JohnWilson]

ShapeLocker is good but may not be exactly what you need because even when shapes are locked and cannot be deleted/changed they can still be hidden and replaced. If you have any other AddIns you might also find that they can crash when the other add in tries to select or modify locked shapes.

Here's an example of a slide for you to test with a locked shape on the large slide master (I didn't use shapelocker but the method is exactly the same.)

Sample

If you select the large master and open the selection pane you will see it can be hidden easily.