Cnvert PowerPoint 07 to Word 07 and keep images

[Corinne]

Hi,
I work for an education provider and we have a number of PowerPoint
presentations that we need to convert to Word. This is so we can create
Workbooks for our participants rather than give out reams of slides.
To start this process we want a Word version of the slides which ideally
keeps as much of the original formatting and images as possible yet remains
editable in Word.
I have read the other blogs relating to this topic and as it seems
PowerPoint 07 doesn’t have ‘Send to Word’ it looks like the best option will
be the “publish> create handouts in Wordâ€. However this just provides the
text without formatting.
Can anyone save us hours of cut and paste?

Thanks,
Corinne.

 

[Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)]

Hi Corinne

When you Publish -> Send to Word you can select the kind of handouts you
want to create - it sounds like you are talking about the 'Outline Only'
option. If you use 'Notes next to slides' you can then add your own notes in
Word (if there were none in PowerPoint to start with...).

An alternative is to save the PowerPoint file as pictures and then use them
in any way you want in your Word document. Office button -> save as -> other
formats -> select your desired format from the 'save as type' drop down list.

Bill Dillworth has a slides to word add-in but I don't know if it works in
2007: http://billdilworth.mvps.org/SlideIntoWord.htm

Hope that helps

Lucy

 

[Corinne]

Thanks Lucy.
I think maybe the outline view either by publish or save as>outline is the
best result we can get and cut and paste the graphics/tables etc.

It still doesn’t really provide what I want as it doesn't bring across
graphics or spacing etc unfortunately. We don’t want the final result to be
just slides in a document (like a handout) - ideally we need all the content
content from the slides in an editable format and then we'll build a workbook
from that.
Thanks again,
Corinne.

 

[Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)]

Ahhhh, I see. It *may* be possible with VBA but I'm a GUI girl through and
through so I can't help I'm afraid. But maybe one of the VBA experts will
jump in... Guys? Can you hear me?

Lucy