Send to Word in 2007 vs. 2003

[Ron K]

In PowerPoint 2003 sending to Word maintained styles making it rather
easy to then outline a document. All my slides were carefully built
with MS slide layouts to preserve this capability. When I did Send to
Word in PowerPoint 2007 all the styles were stripped leaving me with
37 pages of "Normal" and centered text (and 90%+ of the original test
was right justified bullets). I hope someone can share how to
retrieve functionality that both worked great and I depended on. I
have 160+ slides to outline. . . I hate to have to go back to work so
I can use Office 2003. No rants against Office 2007, I just want to
get my work done. . .

TIA

Ron

 

[Echo S]

Unfortunately, I can't offer you any solutions here.

If you format the slide masters in 2007 and reapply the slide layout, you
can reapply the formatting from the slide masters. But that probably won't
quite recreate what you did in Word.

(I don't recall 2003 actually maintaining the Word styles, but I haven't
looked at that in awhile, so I really don't remember what exactly it does.
Plus, it's hard to tell without seeing your files.)

The thing with the sending-only-37 slides is a bug. It's been reported, but
I don't know if it will be fixed.

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[PCTeacher]

In PowerPoint 2003 sending toWordmaintained styles making it rather
easy to thenoutlinea document. All my  slides were carefully built
with MS slide layouts to preserve this capability. When I did Send toWordin PowerPoint 2007 all the styles were stripped leaving me with
37 pages of "Normal" and centered text (and 90%+ of the original test
was right justified bullets).  I hope someone can share how to
retrieve functionality that both worked great and I depended on. I
have 160+ slides tooutline. . . I hate to have to go back to work so
I can use Office 2003. No rants against Office 2007, I just want to
get my work done. . .

TIA

Ron

This is NOT the perfect solution, but is is better than what you have
now - I think. There is a VBA program that will take your presentation
and convert it to text. But, it does recognize levels and uses tabs to
identify them. Look here: http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00679.htm

Don't let the VBA put you off - it is only a cut & paste.