Compare Presentations Manually in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

There may be circumstances when you want to compare two or more presentations side by side. In this tutorial you are going to learn how you can place presentations side by side and compare individual slides. This is not a comprehensive compare option, but it does allow you to compare the slides.

However, doing so will get you to another roadblock. Viewing more than one PowerPoint presentation at the same time is little difficult because you have to keep switching between windows. However, PowerPoint does allow you to open more than one PowerPoint presentation side by side.

Follow these steps to manually compare two presentations in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac:

1. Ensure that only the two presentations you want to use for comparison are open. Close any other open presentations.
2. Access the Window menu and select the Arrange All option, as shown in Figure 1, below.
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   Figure 1: Arrange All option within the Window menu
3. Doing so will arrange both presentations in different windows side by side, as shown in Figure 2, below. You can now compare individual slides on both presentations with each other.
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   Figure 2: Two presentations arranged side by side

Slide Sorter View to Copy Slides

This does not have anything to do with comparison, but if you want to copy slides between the two open presentations, you can change the view on both open presentations to Slide Sorter, as shown in Figure 3, below.


Figure 3: Presentations in Slide Sorter view
4. Next, drag and drop any slides, as needed, from one presentation to the other to copy slides.
5. Save your presentation often.