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Subject:Re: Convert from PowerPoint to Word From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:19:16 -0600
In our previous episode, Linda Castellani said:
> I created a cover for a document in PowerPoint. Why? Because we wanted to
> use the official presentation background as the basis for the cover
> graphic. I added text and a graphic and it looks fabulous. But, it's in
> PowerPoint, and my document is in Word. I've tried exporting it as a JPG,
> but when I try to insert the resulting graphic in the Word document, it's
> the wrong size and it can't be resized properly because the aspect ratio
> seems to have changed. Very strange. I've tried saving it as HTML, but
> PowerPoint puts it in some kind of wrapper, so that the result is still a
> PowerPoint presentation, not a document. And it's not possible to save it
> as a Word file.
Just save it is an OLE PowerPoint object in Word.
Open PowerPoint. Go to Slide View. Copy the slide.
Paste into Word. Resize as necessary, keeping the aspect ratio
constant.
That should solve your problem.
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Beth Friedman bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
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