Clean up and sanitize

Remove sensitive information, comments, and other unwanted content to ensure your presentation is professional and secure.

To clean up your presentation, select think-cell > Quality > Clean Up or Insert > think-cell > Tools Tools Menu icon > Clean Up . Choose to clean up the selected shapes, selected slide, or the entire presentation, then select from the following clean up options.

Option	Description
Check/Uncheck All	Selects or deselects all the options grouped under Remove the following objects.
Alt text	Removes alt text from objects (see Microsoft Support).
Shape Locks	Unlocks any objects that you locked using PowerPoint's Selection pane (see Microsoft Support).
Animations	Removes animation effects, triggered animations, and motion paths (see Microsoft Support).
Ink	Removes free-form ink objects (see Microsoft Support).
Data Links	Removes Excel data links (see Excel data links).
Transitions	Removes transition effects (see Microsoft Support).
Comments	Removes comments (see Microsoft Support).
Presentation Notes	Removes content from the notes sections on slides (see Microsoft Support).
Invisible and Off-Slide Content	Removes objects that are formatted as invisible or located outside the slide area. This option doesn't remove objects hidden behind other objects or objects that are invisible due to transparency or animation effects (see Microsoft Support).
Slide Workbooks	Removes slide workbooks (see Slide workbooks).
Hidden Slides	Removes hidden slides (see Microsoft Support).
Document Properties and Personal Information	Removes metadata and personal information from the document properties (see Microsoft Support).
Unused Slide Masters	Removes unused slide masters, including slide masters that are set to Preserve Master (see Microsoft Support).
Unused Layouts	Removes unused slide layouts (see Microsoft Support).
Custom XML Data	Removes custom XML data (see Microsoft Learn).
Make Invisible Objects Visible	Reveals hidden objects. Note that revealed objects may still be hidden behind other objects or located outside the slide area (see Microsoft Support).
Sanitize Contents: Numbers	Replaces numbers with random numbers without affecting the shape and format of objects.

To make your selected changes, select Clean Up. To make your selected changes and close the dialog, select Clean Up + Close.

Caution: To remove invisible content, only use the Invisible and Off-Slide Content option of the think-cell Clean Up dialog. Do not use similar PowerPoint or third-party features, as they may interfere with think-cell functionality on existing slides.

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