Exporting slides as greyscale WMF in PP2003

[KR]

in PP2000, I was able to set my view of my presentation to greyscale, and
export as WMF- and I would get greyscale WMF's (which are much smaller) to
put into my facilitator guide.

Now in 2003, when I set my presentation to greyscale (and my printer to a
greyscale printer, in case that would have any effect) and export to WMF,
I'm getting color WMFs. Is there some other setting that might have been
reset with the 2003 upgrade, or a new way to accomplish this in 2003?

Many thanks,
Keith

 

[Echo S]

Unfortunately the export as B/W feature is broken in PPT 2003. In fact, we
keep a copy of PPT 2000 around at my office just so we can get B/W images
out of PPT.

Wish I had a better answer for you.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Keith,

For some reason, this was a feature/bug that was removed/fixed in later
versions of powerpoint.

I'm sure there is a workaround but it escapes me at the moment.

perhaps someone else will post the workaround

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Bill Dilworth]

KR,

You may want to look at SlideIntoWord add-in for PowerPoint. While it does
not export slides as WMF images, it does allow for a gray scale setting and
makes rather small DOC files with note/etc.

Is this close?

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[KR]

I'll take another look at this export feature; the only other time I tried
it, it ended up making humongous files, but those may have been colored
images; greyscale would definitely be smaller.

The downside is that it still adds multiple steps, as before I could just
import the WMF files into an instructor's guide, whereas now (if it works
for me) I'll have to actually create the other document, then copy them over
one at a time.

Ah well, thanks to all who responded, I am much better informed now.


Keith

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Sorry, forgot the link.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org/SlideIntoWord.htm

Bill D.