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Subject:Re: Word to PowerPoint Conversion? From:"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:53:14 -0400
There is something else you can do that is sometimes useful in going from Word to PowerPoint.
If you open a new PowerPoint presentation (using your selected template) in Outline View (with the Outline pane on the left and the slide pane on the right), you can copy material from your Word document and paste it into the outline pane.
Once you have done that, you will certainly have a royal mess on the right. However, there are some quick tricks to clean it all up.
First, use the Enter key (in the Outline pane), to break the text up into slides. Just place the cursor where you want to start a new slide and press enter.
Second, use the tab key (in the Outline pane), to create bullet levels. Tabbing a line pushes it over and down a [PowerPoint bullet] level.
That exercise, which goes quickly if you just plow through the whole thing without doing any editing, will get you halfway to a finished presentation. Then you can go back and tweak in slide view.
Dick
"Hart, Geoff" wrote:
>M Rassmussen, trying to export a Word file into Powerpoint, reports: <<I
>have Office 2k, but File -> Send to... does nothing for me. It just creates
>a lot of blank slides. It won't import any of the photos or text, save for
>one sentence.>>
>
>If memory serves, this is a known problem with the Word to Powerpoint link:
>PP only imports certain levels of heading successfully, and does a really
>lousy job of importing body text and graphics*. That's not really
>surprising, nor is it necessarily Microsoft's fault, since you can't take a
>typical Word document (formatted for print on large pages in portrait
>layout) and simply pour it into a PP slide (formatted for projection onto a
>screen, starting from small pages formatted in landscape layout). You
>probably won't be able to do the job elegantly with any degree of
>automation, but if you do some advance reformatting in Word (e.g., applying
>the Microsoft-defined heading levels 1-3 to the appropriate chunks of text),
>you might be able to get Word to do much of the transfer for you. But you're
>still going to have to do considerable revision work yourself to produce an
>effective PP presentation.
>
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