One textbox per word

[alh]

Hi:

I'm wondering whether there is an easy way to take a text file (.txt or
similar) of about 100 words and import into a PP slide whereby each
word is a separate textbox. It's for a Latin project in which I'd like
my students to be able to re-arrange the words easily. Of course, I
could create 100 textboxes and type in the 100 words, but I'm hoping
there's some sort of shortcut for such a task around there.

Any advice?

Thanks,
Tony

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi Tony,

The only way I can think of without vba...

Place the text in a single text box on a slide. Use you mouse to select
individual words, and drag and drop them out of the text box onto the slide
somewhere else. Bit tedious, though but I have done it here before.

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia

glen at powerpointworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, whether
your cows are in the corn paddock, or
anything else relevant.

 

[alh]

Thanks for the responses. Powerpoint 2003 with XP. I don't have a clue
about vba and there are no cows in my corn paddock, but if it would
help, I'll chase them there! Glen's idea, is very possible. I could put
two copies of the same text on a slide-one as the master with the
original Latin word order and the second for re-arranging. And, I
didn't realize that a simple double click and drag of a word out of the
box would create a new textbox. Thanks! But any quick methods of just
copying a text file into a slide and, voila!, each word had its own
textbox would also be greatly appreciated.

Tony

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hmmm. Without vba ....

If you have the words in a text file, open the text file in Excel.
That will give you one column of words, one word per cell.

Use Tools, Options, View to turn Gridlines off.

Save the file, select all of the text, switch to PPT.
Choose Edit, Paste Special. Pick MS Excel object, and click Link.

Now choose the pasted shape and ungroup it.

I think you're home. ;-)

 

[Glen Millar]

Tony,

It's good your cows aren't in the corn. Believe me. I've chased plenty of
them! I'd rather copy a hundred words out of a text box than chase cows
<vbg>.

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia

glen at powerpointworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, whether
your cows are in the corn paddock, or
anything else relevant.

 

[Glen Millar]

Amazing! Well done, Steve!

(I would have figured that out given enough sleeps <vbg>.)

And if you don't have one word per cell, say, by pasting in, you can always
do a text to columns sort!