When you are preparing a presentation, it is important to keep track of changes so that your audience can follow your presentation easily. Microsoft PowerPoint provides several features to help you do this. One way to keep track of changes is to use the Track Changes feature in Microsoft PowerPoint. This feature allows you to record and track the changes that have been made to your presentation since you last saved it. You can also use this feature to review and approve changes that have been made. If you want to make a change but don’t want to risk losing the changes that have been made since your last save, you can use the Undo command in Microsoft PowerPoint. This command allows you to revert any changes that have been made since your last save. If you need to make multiple changes and don’t want to spend time tracking them all down, you can use the Quick Access Toolbar in Microsoft PowerPoint. This toolbar provides quick access to commonly used commands such as Save, Close, and Undo. ..
While Microsoft 365 subscribers can do real-time collaboration on PowerPoint presentations, some people prefer working independently and having that work reviewed and edited at a later date. Here’s how you can see and track what changed when the presentation comes back to you.
To track the changes that the reviewer of your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation made, you’ll need these two things:
A copy of the source file A copy of the reviewed file
With those two items on hand, go ahead and open the reviewed file. Once open, go to the “Review” tab, then select “Compare” in the “Compare” group.
Now locate and select the source file that contains the original content before the review took place. Once chosen, click “Merge.”
Once merged, the “Revisions” pane will open on the right-hand side of the PowerPoint window. This pane contains all of the details of the differences between the source file and the edited file. If a particular slide doesn’t have any edits made to it, PowerPoint will tell you in the “Revisions” pane, and it will even tell you which slide contains the next set of changes.
If you’re on a slide that contains any changes, they’ll appear in the “Slide Changes” box of the “Revisions” pane.
By clicking the line that appears, a box containing all the changes that were made to that specific content will be displayed.
You can see which changes were made by whom, and you can decide to keep the source content or accept the changes by checking/unchecking the box next to each item in the changelog.
If you want to revert the content in this block back to the source content, check the box next to “All Changes to Content Placeholder 2.”
Repeat these steps for each slide that contains changes in the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
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