Amazing! Steve, you ROCK.
Back and forth. Holding my head in my hands ... at the thought of having to do this
hundreds of times. Ouch. ;-)
I learned something new today - and laughed so
hard my sides hurt.
Ah. Well, y'see, there's ouch and there's GOOD ouch.
Now, how do I tell a (l)user to do it for 100+ slides?
For dozens of ppt presentations? Ack.
Do you do any VBA programming? If so, ask in the Public.Office.Developer.xxx sections
related to Word. There may be a relatively easy way to do the *bulk* of the importing.
I still think there oughta be a utility that takes every object on a ppt
slide, notes its position, and writes a page in a word doc with the same
contents, in the same postions.
You wouldn't *believe* how much more stuff you'd have to record about each PPT object in
order to do anything useful with this. And then MS would come along with PPT2007 and a
zillion new properties to keep track of.
Now that I think about it, it might be more useful to work out how to automate the
following from Word:
Open a presentation
For each slide in the presentation
Copy it
Paste to current position in Word
Change the layout to make the graphic NOT inline
Do whatever's needed to move the cursor to end of document for next paste
Close the presentation
In other words, copy/paste gets the job done, you can still ungroup. No need for the
intermediate WMF/EMF step.
Pity I'm utterly clueless about programming Word. But if you can get one of the Wordies
interested, we can help them with the PPT end of things.