Selectively Hiding Images when printing

[MathGeek]

As a school teacher, I make power point presentations a lot. I usually print
out some of the slides to provide students with assistance with note-taking,
particularly those with disabilities. Lately, I've been creating two and
three different versions of the same presentation so I can print out note
sheets for the kids without all the material included so they have to take
notes. Is there a way to selectively tag images to not print? I'm sure I
could write some form of recursive VBA to do it, but I'm hoping there's an
easier way.

 

[Ute Simon]

As a school teacher, I make power point presentations a lot. I usually

print
out some of the slides to provide students with assistance with
note-taking,
particularly those with disabilities. Lately, I've been creating two and
three different versions of the same presentation so I can print out note
sheets for the kids without all the material included so they have to take
notes. Is there a way to selectively tag images to not print? I'm sure I
could write some form of recursive VBA to do it, but I'm hoping there's an
easier way.

Which version of PowerPoint do you use? Do you print in color or black &
white?

In PowerPoint 2007 go to the Home tab, on the right end you will find
Selection and can open the Selection Pane. There you can control visibility
of objects by clicking on the eye symbol to the right of them.

In all versions you can go to Grayscale view and control how objects print
on a black & white printer. Do not use b&w, use grayscale when printing. b&w
will leave outlines for all objects.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[MathGeek]

Which version of PowerPoint do you use? Do you print in color or black &
white?

In PowerPoint 2007 go to the Home tab, on the right end you will find
Selection and can open the Selection Pane. There you can control visibility
of objects by clicking on the eye symbol to the right of them.

In all versions you can go to Grayscale view and control how objects print
on a black & white printer. Do not use b&w, use grayscale when printing. b&w
will leave outlines for all objects.

Best regards,
Ute

I am using Power Point 2007, and I had not seen that selection option. That
is a lot better than deleting images and saving a different version. I will
be playing with that feature a lot because I'd like to one-up it. Making the
images invisible is fine, but I have to go back and make them visible again
before I present. What I would like is to check a box, much like in the
Selctions pane, so that it is visible on screen but is skipped when I print.
That way I can hide equation boxes or graphs that I want to show on screen
but print without them being given to the students.

Thanks so much for the response.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

I am using Power Point 2007, and I had not seen that selection option.
That
is a lot better than deleting images and saving a different version. I
will
be playing with that feature a lot because I'd like to one-up it. Making
the
images invisible is fine, but I have to go back and make them visible
again
before I present. What I would like is to check a box, much like in the
Selctions pane, so that it is visible on screen but is skipped when I
print.
That way I can hide equation boxes or graphs that I want to show on
screen
but print without them being given to the students.

Thanks so much for the response.

Hi

You could put boxes over the equations/graphs with a background fill and a
'disappear' animation set to 'with previous' - when you show the slide the
boxes will not be seen, but when you print they will cover the stuff you
want to hide. Just one way to approach it....

By the way, you can inspect the document for hidden content - which is handy
to do just before you run the presso in case you have left anything hidden
by mistake. Office button -> prepare -> inspect document.

Lucy

 

[Ute Simon]

I am using Power Point 2007, and I had not seen that selection option.

That
is a lot better than deleting images and saving a different version. I
will
be playing with that feature a lot because I'd like to one-up it. Making
the
images invisible is fine, but I have to go back and make them visible
again
before I present. What I would like is to check a box, much like in the
Selctions pane, so that it is visible on screen but is skipped when I
print.
That way I can hide equation boxes or graphs that I want to show on
screen
but print without them being given to the students.

If you know some VBA, hiding/unhiding could be done programmatically.
Objects have a "visible" property, which can be set to true or false. But
you need a "marker" to tell the program, which objects to hide. This could
be a keyword like "print" in the Web properties. Then it's a simple loop to
tell PowerPoint to search for all objects with this marker and make them
invisible and after printing visible again.

Sorry, I myself do not have knowledge of programming deep enough to write
this little program, I can only sketch out, how it could work.

Best regards,
Ute