Compare Presentations Manually in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

With PowerPoint 2007, you will no longer find the feature available in PowerPoint 2003 and previous versions that let you compare your presentations, which was great if you received a presentation back from a colleague and he or she made changes you were not aware of. You can however place both presentations side by side and compare individual slides in PowerPoint 2007. This is not too great a workaround, but it does allow you to compare the slides.

However, this approach will get you to another roadblock—viewing more than one PowerPoint presentation at the same time is a little difficult because you have to keep switching between windows. Fortunately, PowerPoint 2007 does allow you to open more than one PowerPoint presentation side by side.

Follow these steps to manually compare two presentations in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows:

1. Ensure that only the two presentations you want to use for comparison are open. Close any other open presentations.
2. Access the View tab of the Ribbon. In the Window group, click the Arrange All button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 1, below.
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   Figure 1: Arrange All button
3. Doing so will arrange both presentations in different windows side by side, as shown in Figure 2, below.
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   Figure 2: Arranged presentations side by side
4. If you find some slides are missing in one of the presentations, you can copy slides between two presentations. To do so, you can change to Slide Sorter view, as shown in Figure 3, below.
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   Figure 3: Presentations in Slide Sorter view
5. Next, drag and drop any slides, as needed, from one presentation to the other to copy slides.
6. Save your presentation often.