PowerPointPipe

 

Use PowerPointPipe Replace for PowerPoint to migrate Microsoft PowerPoint hyperlinks when you rename file servers, to translate files by applying massive search/replace lists, or find and replace your organization's name, address, website etc across thousands of presentations - automatically. PowerPointPipe is designed as a hands-off tool requiring next to no user intervention, as you would expect for migrating large numbers of files. It copes with a myriad range of Microsoft PowerPoint bugs, such as restarting Microsoft PowerPoint every 1000 presentations to avoid memory errors. It also copes with the largest variety of problem presentations of any tool, ranging from password protected and corrupted presentations to SharePoint locked presentations. To use PowerPointPipe, you simply add a list of search/replace pairs, and for each one, specify where in the presentation it should be found. Then you tell it which files to process - that's it!

Use it for...

• Standardizing corporate name changes such as your organization's phone number, address, web site or CEO
• Performing server consolidations where document links need updating
• Server renaming or replacement where document links need updating
• Updating documents to use Microsoft Namespace Server mappings
• Changing part numbers or SKUs across multiple files
• Translating documents
• and much more.

User benefits

• Fast!
• No limit on the number of presentations processed - use it across an entire file server or web server
• Translators can import search/replace lists from Excel, CSV- or Tab-delimited files
• Easy to use with integrated online help
• Supports the same search and replace options as Microsoft PowerPoint, plus more
• Stand-alone - doesn't integrate directly with PowerPoint so it doesn't destabilize your installation
• Update documents to use Microsoft Namespace Server mappings
• Hyperlink report/pre-migration analysis can identify the existing links and what they would be changed to (complete report in full version only)
• Lite version works with documents located on the local system. Pro version works with documents locally, on File Servers or NAS, Novell cluster volumes etc.
• Translations are available for other languages

Features

• Disables PowerPoint's Update Links dialog for completely automatic processing
• New! Find and replace inside the Slide Master (per Slide), Master Slide (per presentation), Notes Master, Title Master and Handout Master
• New! Search and replace inside OLE Link paths e.g. to embedded Excel worksheets
• Search and replace inside slide notes
• Search and replace with all PowerPoint's options such as Match Case, Match Whole Word etc, plus more
• Files can be specified by folder (optionally including sub folders), by importing from a list file, or by pasting in a list of filenames
• Search and replace inside Code Modules - even if protected
• Search and replace inside hyperlink addresses
• Search and replace inside shapes and text boxes
• Search and replace inside built in document properties and custom properties such as Title, Subject, Author, Company etc
• Search and replace inside headers and footers
• Fully Unicode compliant - search and replace international character sets (unlike competing products)
• Allows replacements to be longer than 255 characters (Microsoft PowerPoint limits this to 255)
• Works with Windows SharePoint Services document libraries
• Control the presentation types used - so you can process any custom presentation type
• Can be automated or scheduled via the command line, and settings are saved in an easy-to-edit or generate XML format
• Read only documents can be processed or skipped
• Easy to install/uninstall
• The original file date and time stamp can be preserved.
• Does not alter documents unless a change is made. In Search Only mode, no changes are made.
• All settings can be saved and re-loaded later, allowing you to manage multiple jobs.
• Full backup facility, and the ability to rollback if the results are not acceptable.
• Full audit trail on completion, logging the changed documents, unchanged documents and error documents.
• Beware of cheap imitations.

Microsoft SharePoint Services

To use PowerPointPipe with Microsoft SharePoint Services, just specify a UNC path to the document root e.g. \\servername\path

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  Lite Edition US$ 49.95/EU€ 41.35*, Full Edition US$ 499/EU€ 413.08*, Full vs Lite comparison chart.

Technical specifications

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 and x64, Vista®, Vista 64, 2008/2003 Server, XP, 2000
• All versions of Microsoft PowerPoint (2010, 2007, 2003, XP, 2002, 2000) or Microsoft Office (2010, 2007, 2003, XP, 2002, 2000), but not  PowerPoint Starter Edition (which is a cut-down version with zero integration capability)
• Hard Disk with 2 MB free disk space
• 32 MB RAM

Multi-user, Site and Enterprise licenses are also available to enhance the efficiency of your entire team.

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See also

• TextPipe industrial strength text conversion, transformation, cleansing and extraction workbench
• WordPipe search and replace in Word documents
• ExcelPipe search and replace in Excel spreadsheets
• DataPipe search and replace in live database records
• ResumePipe if you need to cleanse and process emails