What happens during the actual review depends on a number of things: the methodology the original author communicated to the reviewers, the amount of change required, the type of review (quick glance versus detailed content analysis), and the preferences of the individual reviewer.
In PowerPoint, reviewers can either make changes to the presentation itself or add comments about individual slides in the presentation. If a reviewer revises the actual presentation, the original author will be able to use the Revisions pane to determine what changes were made. If the reviewer uses comments, these will be readily visible in yellow boxes on the screen. When a reviewer changes the actual content of a presentation, PowerPoint tracks these changes. Table 7.1 lists the types of changes PowerPoint tracks, in addition to the actual text itself.
Table 7.1. Review Changes PowerPoint Tracks
Change
Description
Presentation-level changes
Slide size
Content and list of named shows
Headers and footers for slides, title slides, and notes
Slide-level changes
Color scheme
Animation settings
List of shapes
Slide master IDs and locked templates
Slide master list of color schemes, default text styles, back-ground, and objects
Slide transition and layout
Headers and footers
Shape-level changes
Action settings
Recolor information
External objects
Paragraph-level changes
Bullet typeface, color, size, animation schemes, margins, and tabs
Paragraph indent, alignment, direction, margin, and tabs
East Asian word wrap and alignment settings
Text-level changes
Font typeface, color, and size
Languages
Hyperlinks
