Calendar Insert into PPT

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Joel B. Kohm

What is the best way to create a slideshow with a month-a-slide covering a
10 year span 1995 to 2005? The simple calendar shareware programs create
monthly calendars which don't appear to insert readily into PPT.

J. B. Kohm
Toronto, Canada
 
Joel,

I don't know what standard practice is but...

I went into Outlook, selected a whole month, saved as a web page to my hard
drive, and used Live Web to insert the web page into PowerPoint.

http://www.mvps.org/skp/liveweb.htm

The advantage to me was I could choose whether I also saved all my
appointments or not. Now, you will have to save multiple months, though.

An alternative is to use a calendar control, but that is not my area.


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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia
 
One simple, labor intensive way is to use any calendar program you like and
capture a screen shot for each month (using the Alt-PrtSc key combination).
This will capture the screenshot to the windows clipboard. Simply paste the
image into PowerPoint and resize and crop as desired. Yes, you would need to
do this 120 times.

Craig Ball
 
From Microsoft Word XP Help --

Create a calendar:
1. On the File menu, click New.
2. In the New Document task pane, under New from template, click
General Templates.
3. Click the Other Documents tab.
4. Double-click Calendar Wizard. If you do not see this wizard in the
Templates dialog box, you might need to install it.
5. Follow the steps in the wizard.

Hope this helps,
Tony

Tony Ramos
Specialist in PowerPoint Presentation Design
http://tonyramos.com
Home of "Tony's PowerPoint Weblog"
 
Thank you for all the suggestions.

The calendar format I need has boxes for each day, with the number of the
day in the upper left corner of each box. That way, I can add icons or
other data in the rest of each square.

The first method I tried involved the MS Word wizard-produced calendar which
has default numbers that are 36 point font and dominate each square. I had
to use the brute force method and manually change them month by month
(edit-all) to 12 point font. After that, I was able to cut and paste one
month for PowerPoint each slide.

I'm next going to try the other methods, now that I've done it the hard way.

Joel B. Kohm
Toronto, Canada

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What is the best way to create a slideshow with a month-a-slide covering a
10 year span 1995 to 2005? The simple calendar shareware programs create
monthly calendars which don't appear to insert readily into PPT.
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I think recent versions of CorelDraw ship with a script that generates
calendars for you automatically. I don't know whether there's a way to
automate creating multiple calendars or whether you'd have to slog through all
120 of 'em one by one, though.
 
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