At the school in which I work our students print out
PowerPoint presentations from the lectures that they have
attended. This of course has led to astronomical
printing charges at our school as some will print out the
slides instead of a handout.

Is it possible to create a handout only version of at ppt
file to share with students? I don't believe one can. I
can do a File send to Word and create a Word doc that the
students can use. Am I thinking of the correct
alternative here? Thanks.

Powerpoint has very cool options for doing what you want,
and you'll find them on the Print options page. Open the
Powerpoint file you want to print, and
select "File>Print". The print options window will open.
Look in the lower left corner of the print options box
for "Print What?" selection box. Click on this and you'll
see an option for "Handouts". Next, select the number
of "slides per page", using the selection box loctaed in
the middle-bottom of the dialog box (I like '4', since the
slides are still readable if they have smaller print.
An additonal print option is to choose "Print Outline",
which works well with mostly-text slides (ie, pictures
aren't important in the output).
For further paper-saving, depending on your printer, you
can choose "Properties" on the print dialog box, then
choose "Print on both sides" on the secondary dialog box,
for duplex printing.
>-----Original Message-----
>At the school in which I work our students print out
>PowerPoint presentations from the lectures that they have
>attended. This of course has led to astronomical
>printing charges at our school as some will print out the
>slides instead of a handout.
>
>Is it possible to create a handout only version of at ppt
>file to share with students? I don't believe one can. I
>can do a File send to Word and create a Word doc that the
>students can use. Am I thinking of the correct
>alternative here? Thanks.
>.
>

I use PP2k for teaching mathematics and my solution is to use a laser
printer. The Brother HL-1850 is very fast and inexpensive and particularly
suited to PP. It has duplex capability (uses both sides of the page) and can
print multiple PP slides per page (unlike the "handout" format built into
PP, it can use the entire page area for the slide, giving you maximum paper
utilisation).

Typically, you can print of 4 slides for a class of 32 students (1 page with
per student) in 5 minutes at the low cost of paper and toner.

--
Jeff

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"Roxy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> At the school in which I work our students print out
> PowerPoint presentations from the lectures that they have
> attended. This of course has led to astronomical
> printing charges at our school as some will print out the
> slides instead of a handout.
>
> Is it possible to create a handout only version of at ppt
> file to share with students? I don't believe one can. I
> can do a File send to Word and create a Word doc that the
> students can use. Am I thinking of the correct
> alternative here? Thanks.

I think the problem here is not getting PPT to print in a way that uses less
paper, it's getting the STUDENTS to use any of those methods. It's too easy
just to click the Print button.

Another thought: make an Acrobat PDF of the presentation in whatever format
it *should* be printed in, then make the PDF available (possibly via a
"Printer Friendly Version of Presentation" link within the presentation
itself.

Then make it clear that anybody seen with normal printouts loses a letter
off their grade?

What good's a carrot if they don't like carrots -- sometimes it needs a
stick too. <g>

--

Steve Rindsberg PPT MVP
PPTLive ( http://www.pptlive.com ) Featured Speaker
PPTools: http://www.pptools.com
PPT FAQ: http://www.pptfaq.com


"Jeff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I use PP2k for teaching mathematics and my solution is to use a laser
> printer. The Brother HL-1850 is very fast and inexpensive and particularly
> suited to PP. It has duplex capability (uses both sides of the page) and
can
> print multiple PP slides per page (unlike the "handout" format built into
> PP, it can use the entire page area for the slide, giving you maximum
paper
> utilisation).
>
> Typically, you can print of 4 slides for a class of 32 students (1 page
with
> per student) in 5 minutes at the low cost of paper and toner.
>
> --
> Jeff
>
> (E-Mail Removed)
> "Roxy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:027a01c3553f$eeef8100$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > At the school in which I work our students print out
> > PowerPoint presentations from the lectures that they have
> > attended. This of course has led to astronomical
> > printing charges at our school as some will print out the
> > slides instead of a handout.
> >
> > Is it possible to create a handout only version of at ppt
> > file to share with students? I don't believe one can. I
> > can do a File send to Word and create a Word doc that the
> > students can use. Am I thinking of the correct
> > alternative here? Thanks.
>
>