Stop checking to ensure a meaningful order of objects on slides

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Registry

HKCU software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\powerpoint\accchecker

Value name: nonplaceholdershapes

Enabled: nonplaceholdershapes = 0

Disabled: nonplaceholdershapes = 1

Description

This policy setting prevents the Accessibility Checker from checking if a slide has non-placeholder objects which might be read back out of order. If you enable this policy setting, the Accessibility Checker will be prevented from checking if a slide has non-placeholder objects which might be read back out of order. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, slides will be checked for objects which might be read back out of order and any issues will appear in the Accessibility Checker.