I'm creating lecture presentations in PowerPoint (2010) and would like to be able to exclude some of the slides from the lecture handouts. I would have thought there'd be a 'properties' tab for each slide, and I'd be able to select 'exclude from handout'. Apparently not.
I could just create a second PowerPoint with some of the slides deleted, but this becomes laborious if I decide to make last-minute changes to one of the slides, as I would then need to produce a new handout file. Furthermore, I would like my students to be able to print their own handouts from the PPT file if possible, so specifying a reduced page range when printing is impractical.
I know this is possible it TeX, but I am wedded to Microsoft as this is what the entire department uses.
Any ideas?
Best Answer
You can designate some slides as hidden. When a presentation includes hidden slides, there's an option to print or not print hidden slides in the print dialog box.
If you include all of your slides in a Custom Show and then in the Set Up Slide Show dialog, tell PPT to play the custom show rather than starting with slide 1, all of the slides, hidden ones included, will be displayed.