There is no ‘track changes’ function in PowerPoint, as you get in Word, for example – so you can’t make changes and PowerPoint automatically shows what has been altered.

However, there are two ways of tracking the changes that you have made indirectly.

First, you can use the comments function which is on the ‘Review’ tab on the ribbon. This gives you a text box in which you can write a comment, but when not being viewed, you only see a small yellow box with a comment number in it. This means that they aren’t too intrusive on the slide, but can easily contain as much or as little information as you like without having to resize anything. It is also possible to move the comment marker to any position on the slide, which might be useful if you want to comment on a particular element on the storyboard (just position the comment over it). These comments do not show up in show mode, so will not get in the way of presenting the slides. You can actually add more than one comment on each slide, which makes positioning even more useful as each element can have its own comment (if required). Finally, rather than having to hope that each comment is spotted, PowerPoint allows you to move between comments (again using the Review tab functions), which means that anyone viewing the presentation can make sure that they have seen all of the comments made.

The second way is probably less useful, but involves changing the colour of any objects or text that are modified within the presentation. This is a manual task and so while it makes any changes very obvious, it does require someone to manually change everything back into the default colour.

Richard

Thanks so much.