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The content you have in a slide show isn’t always suitable or appropriate for every audi­ence. For example, a slide show about your company might contain secret corporate data. That’s fine for internal use, but it’s not something you would want to show in a public forum. Similarly, a financial slide show for company executives might contain sensitive pay­roll data that you wouldn’t want to appear if you also presented the show to lower-level managers.

For these and similar situations, you don’t need to build multiple versions of your presenta­tion with material tailored to each audience. Instead, PowerPoint enables you to work with a single presentation file, but build custom slide shows from that file. A custom slide show is a show that displays only those slides that you specify.

Follow these steps to create a custom slide show:

1. Choose Slide Show, Custom Slide Show, Custom Shows. PowerPoint displays the Custom Shows dialog box.
2. Click New. PowerPoint displays the Define Custom Show dialog box.
3. Type a name in the Slide Show Name text box.
4. In the Slides in Presentation list, click a slide that you want to add to the custom show. (If you want to add multiple slides, hold down Ctrl and click each slide.)
5. Click Add. PowerPoint adds the slide to the Slides in Custom Show list, as shown in Figure 1.


Figure 1 Use the Define Custom Show dialog box to cre­ate a custom slide show that includes a subset of the current presenta­tion’s slides.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 to specify all the slides you want to include in the custom show.
7. Click OK to return to the Custom Shows dialog box.
8. Click Close.

To play a custom show, choose Slide Show, Custom Slide Show, Custom Shows to display the Custom Shows dialog box, click the custom show you want to play, and then click Show.

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