Ep 78: Custom Slide Shows-A Freelancer's Secret for Using One Deck for Several Client Presentations
Apr 09, 2026·By Jennifer Fleury
If you're a freelancer juggling multiple client presentations, you’ve probably been doing it the hard way—skipping slides, creating multiple decks, or managing dozens of versions. PowerPoint’s hidden **Custom Slide Shows** feature solves this by letting you create different “playlists” of slides within one master deck, so you can tailor presentations for different audiences without duplication. In this post, I’ll show you how to set it up in five simple steps, share real examples from my own training work, when to use it (and when not to), and how it can save you hours each month by updating one deck instead of many.