Hide slides from edit view w/o macros enabled

[Aschrum]

Hi folks,

in a presentation using VBA I would like to hide all slides from the slide show and edit view, so completely from the users of other workstations, until macros are enabled.

Is there any kind of hiding like "veryhidden" (Excel) in PowerPoint VBA?

Greets
André

[John Wilson]

There's no simple way to do that. The only way i can think of is to have vba insert the slides from a separate hidden file.

[Aschrum]

Ok I wouldn't know how to do that, but that would be a perfect solution if it works from the servers. I'll have to ask the IT about it.
If so I'll restart googleing and maybe annoying you afterwards. ;)

[John Wilson]

The basic code would be:

ActivePresentation.Slides.InsertFromFile "Path to hidden file", Index:=1 ' inserts all slides after slide 1

If you need to you can specify the range of slides to insert by adding SlideStart:=x, SlideEnd:=y
Example:
ActivePresentation.Slides.InsertFromFile "Path to hidden file", Index:=1,SlideStart:=1, SlideEnd:=3