Limit of 249 slides when sending Word outline to PowerPoint

[Guest]

I have tried to save a Word outline as a PowerPoint presentation (both by
opening outline in PowerPoint and sending outline to PowerPoint from Word),
but every time I try I get "The outline is too long to read in its entirety"
and only the first 249 slides are imported. I have tried decreasing the
number of slides to under 1000 (the main Word file should export to several
thousand slides), but this has not helped. Does anyone have any ideas or
suggestions to get around this problem? Thanks.

Dave

 

[Sonia]

It sounds like the limit is in PowerPoint, not Word. Therefore you would have
to Send to PowerPoint in sections not exceeding 249 Heading 1 objects. Each
Heading 1 paragraph becomes a slide. Heading 2 - 5 (or is it 6?) become
bullets. Is that what you expect to happen? Do you reall want to create 1000
slides?

 

[Guest]

Yes, that is really what I want to do. I have an Excel spreadsheet with one
column that has the Bible book, chapter and verse, and the second column with
the wording for the verse. I have created a Word document that has the first
column as heading one and the verse as heading two. What I want to end up
with is a separate presentation for each book of the bible. I think it would
be much easier to import the entire document at one time than to send 100-150
different sections to the Word document. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

Dave

 

[Sonia]

I have no other suggestion,

Yes, that is really what I want to do. I have an Excel spreadsheet with one
column that has the Bible book, chapter and verse, and the second column with
the wording for the verse. I have created a Word document that has the first
column as heading one and the verse as heading two. What I want to end up
with is a separate presentation for each book of the bible. I think it would
be much easier to import the entire document at one time than to send 100-150
different sections to the Word document. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

Dave

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Yes, that is really what I want to do. I have an Excel spreadsheet with one
column that has the Bible book, chapter and verse, and the second column with
the wording for the verse. I have created a Word document that has the first
column as heading one and the verse as heading two. What I want to end up
with is a separate presentation for each book of the bible. I think it would
be much easier to import the entire document at one time than to send 100-150
different sections to the Word document. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

In the Word document, is the verse a single paragraph or might there be more than
one paragraph?

 

[Guest]

Steve:
Each record consists of one field containing the book, chapter and verse and
another record containing one verse (generally contains one sentence, but
never more than one paragraph).

Dave

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Each record consists of one field containing the book, chapter and verse and

another record containing one verse (generally contains one sentence, but
never more than one paragraph).

Hold up ... we were talking Word and now I'm hearing Database-speak.

It's not nice to confuse me (and it's not very sporting; I'm too easy a target) ;-)

Kidding aside, what I'd like to know is whether you have something that would
copy/paste to Notepad and end up like so:

Book, Chapter, Verse (all on one line)
Text of Verse (also on one line if you turn wordwrap off in Notepad)
Another Book, Chapter, Verse (all on one line)
Text of Another Verse (also on one line if you turn wordwrap off in Notepad)

and so on.

If you can get it to that point, it shouldn't be too awfully hard to write a macro
that'll:

Insert a slide (title and text)
Read a line from the file; make that the title text
Read a line from the file; make that the text box text
and so on, until there's no more text left in the file.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Steve. I will see if I can get some code that will do the job.

Dave

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks, Steve. I will see if I can get some code that will do the job.

I just wrote a little up for you and posted it here since it seemed like something that
could be useful to other people too:

Add new slides with titles and text from a text file
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00661.htm