Another useful technique we shouldn't forget in this section of the course is the use of watermarks.
This is especially important when working with confidential documents examples of such documents can
include confidential information memorandums and management presentations used in investment banking
when a company is being sold.
These documents are presentation materials describing the business of the company being sold to potential
buyers.
They can be quite lengthy and detailed sometimes over 100 pages long since the information contained
in them is confidential and can be sensitive.
It is extremely important to control and track the circulation of these documents.
Therefore before they are sent to each recipient the name of that recipient should be stamped with a
watermark on each page.
That way any leakages of the whole or parts of the document can be traced back to their source.
The designated parties who received documents containing confidential information would normally have
signed a non-disclosure agreement NDA also known as a confidentiality agreement C-a.
So they need to be very careful how they handle these documents when such confidential documents are
ready in their final watermarked version.
They are usually sent in a PTF format with a password to each designated party.
The way to apply watermarks on all slides is usually to put a big text label across the whole page in
the slide master.
That way it will be automatically applied to the entire document.
Another application of watermarks is to label each page of a document as draft confidential restricted
or internal depending on the situation.
This comes back to the concept of communication.
Such labels make the development stage and purpose of the document immediately clear to everyone reading
it by following the tips and tricks we showed you in this section.
You will make sure your slides look neat and professional and you will leave a positive impression on
the audience.
In addition you will minimize and mitigate the risks of confidential information leakage is.