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How to remove all your powerpoint notes

Open your presentation
Click "Tools", "Macro", "Macros…" and type in removeNotes.
Click "Create".
Paste the following into the window that appears, just before the text "End Sub"

Dim objSlide As Slide
Dim objShape As Shape

For Each objSlide In ActivePresentation.Slides
    For Each objShape In objSlide.NotesPage.Shapes
        If objShape.TextFrame.HasText Then
            objShape.TextFrame.TextRange = ""
        End If
    Next
Next

Close the script window.
Click "Tools", "Macro", "Macros…" and double click removeNotes.

Your notes should be deleted!

You can find another approach by Shyam Pillai over here

And if we started clearning up powerpoint…
Cool add-in is the Remove Hidden Data Add-in for Office 2003/XP

Then comes to your mind the question why its not build into the product the ability to remove the hidden data when saving… :-)

Posted: Nov 15 2005, 08:15 AM by Ohad Israeli | with 20 comment(s)
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anna said:

thank you for this post - it's very useful indeed!~

# July 20, 2007 6:25 PM

martin frisher said:

very useful-thanks

# October 1, 2007 6:01 AM

Tim said:

Works like a champ, thanks for the great info. I saved the macro in a "template" file I have that has all my color palette & commonly used icons/clipart - now it has my commonly used macros! :)

# November 10, 2007 11:10 PM

Julia said:

Thanks a lot! It works miraculously!

# January 22, 2008 3:59 PM

Schattenreich » Blog Archiv » Nützlicher Tip für Powerpoint said:

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# February 14, 2008 8:49 AM

Chad K. said:

Thanks for info. It works great work! Very helpful and time saving feature.

# March 2, 2008 1:53 PM

Ian said:

Thanks for that solution.

# March 6, 2008 11:42 PM

mint said:

brilliant!!! thanks ever so much for this! one click and it's done :)

# March 13, 2008 8:15 AM

gareth said:

perfect! thank you

# March 20, 2008 1:17 PM

alan said:

oh man you saved me some work, thanks indeed.

# April 4, 2008 6:28 AM

William Michael said:

Didn't work for me...I can't get rid of the notes.  I've tried 20 different things...including the scripts and add-ins you've listed.

# October 18, 2008 9:04 PM

LittleFish said:

You rock! Thanks so much for saving me so much time!!!! For the folks who are having a hard time running it, they may want to change their security settings in the 03 PPT Options Security Tab and/or the 07 PowerPoint Options (available on the bottom of the home button options) to enable macros. They can change the settings back after running the macro.

# October 21, 2008 1:26 PM

Peter Provost said:

BTW, in PowerPoint 2007, you can simply click on the "ball" in the top left (corresponds to the old File menu) and choose Prepare, and then Inspect Document. Check all the things you want to look for, e.g. "Presentation Notes" or "Comment and Annotations" and click Inspect. If it finds things, you just click "Remove All" and they're gone!

# November 4, 2008 7:17 PM

ellobie said:

Booo.  Doesn't work in 2007.

# November 10, 2008 5:17 PM

el said:

you are a star! thanks soooo much!

el.

# January 6, 2009 2:25 PM

Brian said:

Wow this worked great for me.  Thanks for sharing.

# February 17, 2009 9:09 AM

Ram said:

Worked great. Thanks so much

# March 11, 2009 10:35 AM

taylor k. said:

thanks Ohad, saved me a lot of time!

# June 17, 2009 9:22 AM

Sue said:

Thanks!! you rock!!

# August 24, 2009 12:46 PM

Mike said:

Brilliant - you saved me a load of time, and I know I'll use it again in the future.

Why don't MS add a setting for this!?

# October 26, 2009 9:07 AM
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