How do I create a MS Powerpoint template, with images that can't be changed or moved?

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I've been asked by my boss to create a Powerpoint template that features our logo and strapline at the top and bottom of each slide, but when people load up the template, they're unable to move the pictures, to keep uniformity amongst all presentations. Is this possible? Thanks!|||Here isn鈥檛 enough space to list the steps.


This article shows you the details of how to create a new template.


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If you are using PowerPoint 2010 then you may be aware of the new Protected View feature that sandboxes presentations that have been downloaded from the Internet or received via email. This feature uses a new element of the MSO XML schema to prevent you from moving/copying any object on the slide. Try sending yourself a presentation by email and then opening it directly from Outlook and you will see that it opens in Protected View (indicated by a yellow bar message under the ribbon) and that if you click on any object on any slide, it's corner and edge adjustment handle icons are changed to 'screws' and they cannot be moved.





So, how is this done?





Well, you can achieve the same effect by editing the XML of the presentation. This is where it gets complicated. You have to change the extension of the presentation (usually .pptx) to .zip (all MSO docs in the new XML format are just zipped up folders containing many sub-folders and files).





You can then unzip the contents and find the relevant file than represents your presentation slide(s) which I won't go in to detail here. You then add a %26lt;a:spLocks/%26gt; tag to the shape you want to protect with the relevant protection element eg.%26lt;a:spLocks noSelect="1"/%26gt; as in this example:





%26lt;p:nvSpPr%26gt;


%26lt;p:cNvPr id="4" name="Rectangle 1"/%26gt;


%26lt;p:cNvSpPr/%26gt;%26lt;a:splocks noSelect="1"/%26gt;%26lt;/p:cNvSpPr/%26gt;


%26lt;/p:cNvPr/%26gt;


%26lt;/p:nvSpPr%26gt;





There is also a noMove and a noResize element.





You then have to save the file, zip up the whole folder again and rename it back to it's original .pptx extension. When you now open the file in PowerPoint, you won't be able to select the protected object.





I hope that once day, Microsoft will add this capability in to the user interface!!!|||In fact it is very simple, set the image as PowerPoint background then it could not be edited.


Right click on the slide, and choose Format Background, then browse the image and make it as PowerPoint background.|||Powerpoint has excellent features you can use to accomplish this.





One way is to create a custom Theme and save it as a .thmx file


In conjunction with your Theme you can include multiple master slides and design slides.|||You can not. Any document made from the template can be fully edited.