Ampler’s Clean tool strips a presentation of the hidden and internal content you don’t want to send out — document metadata, comments, and speaker notes — and can shrink the file at the same time.
Quick answer: Click Clean on the Ampler ribbon, select the elements to remove (document metadata, comments, speaker notes, picture metadata, and more), and press Enter.
How to use it
Select what to remove, then press Enter.
- Click Clean.
- Select the elements you wish to remove and press Enter.
Clean can strip document metadata (title, author, company, tags, creation and modified dates, editing time), picture metadata (generated, for example, when inserting images from Google), speaker notes, and comments — and it can convert Excel links to embedded values and reduce the file size across several levers.
Keyboard shortcut
Clean has no default shortcut. To assign one, open the Settings dropdown on the Ampler ribbon, choose Shortcuts, click Set shortcut on the Clean function, and press your key combination.
Why use it
A presentation carries more than what’s on the slides. Document metadata records the author, company, and full edit history; speaker notes and comments hold internal thinking; and linked workbooks can expose the underlying model. Sending a deck without clearing these can leak information you never intended to share. Clean removes them in one pass.
How consultants use it
In consulting, a deck that leaves the firm carries risk beyond its visible content, so sanitising the file before it goes to a client is standard practice. Three conventions govern it:
- Strip identifying metadata: Author, company, tags, and the edit history are removed so a client-facing file doesn’t reveal who worked on it or for how long.
- Remove internal-only content: Speaker notes and review comments — where hypotheses, caveats, and internal debate live — must never travel with an external deck.
- Contain linked data: Converting Excel links to embedded values gives the recipient the numbers, not a live path back to the underlying model.
Clean does all of this in a single step, and trims the file size along the way.
Tips & best practices
- Clean as the final step before sending a deck outside the immediate team.
- Work on a copy if you still need the speaker notes or comments internally.
- Convert Excel links to values when the recipient should see the numbers but not the source model.
Availability
Included in Ampler for PowerPoint and the Ampler Suite, on Windows desktop PowerPoint.
Frequently asked questions
How do you remove metadata from a PowerPoint?
Use Ampler’s Clean tool: click Clean on the Ampler ribbon, select the elements to remove — including document metadata such as author, company, and edit history — and press Enter.
How do you remove all comments and speaker notes before sending a deck?
Ampler’s Clean tool removes comments and speaker notes in one pass; select them in the Clean dialog and press Enter.
Does cleaning a presentation reduce the file size?
Yes. Clean reduces the presentation’s file size across several levers while it removes metadata and other content.
Why should you clean a PowerPoint before sharing it?
Because the file stores hidden information — author and company metadata, edit history, internal comments, and speaker notes — that you may not intend to share. Ampler’s Clean tool strips it before the deck leaves the team.