Draft Stamp

by Geetesh Bajaj, June 21st 2006

So, what's a Draft Stamp -- it's an easy way to stamp the word "Draft" on all your slides. It's great for those occasions when you have to send an incomplete presentation to someone -- and that someone thinks it is a finished presentation!

We designed this stamp and then made it available as a free members-only download from our site, but then many people wanted to know how they could use it effectively -- and thus this tutorial was born.

If you download the presentation from the link provided above, you'll find that the ZIP file you downloaded contains two files:

• A PowerPoint presentation that contains one slide -- exactly like the graphic above on this page.
• A PNG graphic that can be used anywhere

So how do you use this stamp. It's fairly easy if you follow these steps:

1. Create a new PowerPoint presentation or open an existing PowerPoint presentation.
   
   
2. Open the draft presentation that you downloaded, select the Draft graphic on the slide, and choose Edit | Copy.
   
   
3. Back in your own Power Point presentation, go to the slide that you want to mark as a draft.
   
   
4. Choose Edit | Paste to paste the draft graphic -- you'll now see a draft watermark.
   
   
5. Repeat on all slides as required.