Edit in PowerPoint

Edit in PowerPoint lets you make changes in the Office application and have SlideSource Library capture the result — no manual re-upload. Slides and documents each use a round-trip, with a small difference in how the file is reserved while you work.

Editing a slide

For a slide, Edit in PowerPoint opens the slide in PowerPoint, and when you’re done SlideSource Library saves your changes back as a new version.

• Your edits become the new current version; the previous version is preserved in version history.
• Because it’s a new version, anything referencing the current version of the slide picks up your updates.

Editing a document

For a document, the round-trip goes through check-out: the file is checked out to you while you edit, and checking in saves your changes as a new version. See Documents for the check-out / check-in states.

Prerequisites

Before you can Edit in PowerPoint, all of these must be true:

• You have edit rights in that collection.
• The item is not locked — for a document, that means it isn’t already checked out to someone else.
• You’re working from the current version (you edit current, not an archived one).

Note

If Edit in PowerPoint is greyed out or missing, one of the above usually isn’t met — most often you don’t have edit rights, or a document is checked out elsewhere.

What happens on save / close

• Save in PowerPoint pushes your changes back to SlideSource Library.
• Closing the file finishes the round-trip — the slide’s new version is committed, or the document is checked in.

Related

Edit a slide in PowerPointThe round-trip, step by step.

SlidesVersions and Restore version.

DocumentsCheck-out / check-in for files.