Powerpoint 2003 presentation

[Guest]

Trying to make a couple of slides with CAD Drawining in them, how do I insert
a .dwg or .dxf file into powerpoint 2003, any advice would be very much
appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Try Insert > Object...
Select Create from file.
Click browse and choose the file you want to insert.
Click ok.
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[Guest]

Can you convert your CAD to a jpg or png file? Once that's done and saved
onto your computer as such, you can insert the new picture files via Insert >
Picture > From file.

Sandy

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that just tried it and get this error message @There isn't enough
memory to perform the operation' can you advise please

Cheers

piperhammy

 

[Guest]

In Auto CAd LT 2006 you can only save files as .dwg or .dxf

Any further advice would be appreciated

Yours Aye

Piperhammy

 

[Guest]

Do you have Adobe Acrobat to convert the file to a PDF?

Or, try this. Does CAD allow you to copy the image (CTRL-C). If so, try
copying in CAD then toggle to PowerPoint. Select Edit > Paste Special. Select
PNG.

Sandy

 

[Guest]

If it still doesn't work, try Snagit.
http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp

I found out that the top uses #35 in Snagit stated this, so you may probably
want to try it out
"Insert CAD images into applications like PowerPoint, Word, etc., that
everyone has on their desktops"
http://www.techsmith.com/solutions/snagit_top50.asp
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[Guest]

Thanks managed it now

Do you have Adobe Acrobat to convert the file to a PDF?

Or, try this. Does CAD allow you to copy the image (CTRL-C). If so, try
copying in CAD then toggle to PowerPoint. Select Edit > Paste Special. Select
PNG.

Sandy

 

[Bill Foley]

You can certainly do this without having to buy anything new. Basically you
are going to do a screen capture of your existing drawing, paste it in
Picture Manager (comes with Office 2003), then create a JPG or PNG out of
it. Steps below:

1. Open the file that has the image you wish to capture. Make sure the
entire image is visible on the screen. You might need to change the view
setting to see the entire image.



2. Press ALT-PRINTSCREEN to copy the image to the clipboard (computer's
memory)



3. Open Microsoft Office Picture Manager by clicking the START button,
highlight Programs, then clicking Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Tools.



4. Click the Edit menu and click Paste. If your screen capture copied
other non-needed information, perform Step 5 below, otherwise skip to Step
7.



5. Double-click the thumbnail to open the file. Click Edit Pictures...
on the toolbar. Click Crop in the TaskPane. Anchors will appear in each
corner of your image.



6. Click the desired anchors and drag in until you have the part
selected that you want to save. Click OK in the TaskPane to the right.



7. Click the File menu and click Export....



8. In the TaskPane to the right, click the Export with this file format
dropdown and select JPG or PNG.



9. Click in the Export with this file name box and change the file name
if desired (usually has New Picture x as the name).



10. Click Browse under the Export selected files to section and find the
folder you want to save your image to. Save your file.



11. Close out Microsoft Office Picture Manager and return to or open
PowerPoint. When asked if you want to save your original pasted image,
click Don't Save (that was the Bitmap thumbnail that was originally pasted).



12. Open your presentation, go to the desired slide, click the Insert menu,
highlight Picture then click From file. Browse to your image you just saved
and insert it.

You might need to mess with different file types and resolution to get the
best image in your presentation, but once you go through this once, it gets
quite easy to re-perform!

Good Luck!

 

[Guest]

off course - excellent solution!

You can certainly do this without having to buy anything new. Basically you
are going to do a screen capture of your existing drawing, paste it in
Picture Manager (comes with Office 2003), then create a JPG or PNG out of
it. Steps below:

1. Open the file that has the image you wish to capture. Make sure the
entire image is visible on the screen. You might need to change the view
setting to see the entire image.



2. Press ALT-PRINTSCREEN to copy the image to the clipboard (computer's
memory)



3. Open Microsoft Office Picture Manager by clicking the START button,
highlight Programs, then clicking Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Tools.



4. Click the Edit menu and click Paste. If your screen capture copied
other non-needed information, perform Step 5 below, otherwise skip to Step
7.



5. Double-click the thumbnail to open the file. Click Edit Pictures...
on the toolbar. Click Crop in the TaskPane. Anchors will appear in each
corner of your image.



6. Click the desired anchors and drag in until you have the part
selected that you want to save. Click OK in the TaskPane to the right.



7. Click the File menu and click Export....



8. In the TaskPane to the right, click the Export with this file format
dropdown and select JPG or PNG.



9. Click in the Export with this file name box and change the file name
if desired (usually has New Picture x as the name).



10. Click Browse under the Export selected files to section and find the
folder you want to save your image to. Save your file.



11. Close out Microsoft Office Picture Manager and return to or open
PowerPoint. When asked if you want to save your original pasted image,
click Don't Save (that was the Bitmap thumbnail that was originally pasted).



12. Open your presentation, go to the desired slide, click the Insert menu,
highlight Picture then click From file. Browse to your image you just saved
and insert it.

You might need to mess with different file types and resolution to get the
best image in your presentation, but once you go through this once, it gets
quite easy to re-perform!

Good Luck!

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Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor

 

[Bill Foley]

The only real benefit to my solution over the "Copy", "Edit", "Paste
Special", "PNG or JPG" method is if you have several of these to do you will
find that the file size of PowerPoint will grow much more using the "Copy"
method.

Real Life Example:

I had a client who had a 10-slide presentation which included 8 slides with
images on it that were put there using the "Copy", "Paste" method. File
size - 8 meg. I took each image, CUT it off, used "Edit", "Paste Special",
"JPG" and the file size dropped to 4 Meg. I then cut each one off, pasted
it into Microsoft Photo Editor (Picture manager in Office 2003), saved them
as JPGs, then did a "Insert", "Picture", "From file" in PowerPoint and the
file size dropped to 400 KB!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

In Auto CAd LT 2006 you can only save files as .dwg or .dxf

Sometimes you need to use an Export option rather than Save As to convert to
different file types.

Is something like that available?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The only real benefit to my solution over the "Copy", "Edit", "Paste
Special", "PNG or JPG" method is if you have several of these to do you will
find that the file size of PowerPoint will grow much more using the "Copy"
method.

But fwiw, that'll depend on what app you're copying from. If it's an OLE
server app, then generally the default will be to paste an OLE object into PPT
(read: HAWG. MONSTER. FILEZILLA. Get the picture? Sure you do, but man, is
it BIG!)

Pastes screenshots on the Windows clipboard don't create OLE objects though,
just images. Just did one of a fairly detailed screen as a test and it
compressed down to about 200k (1024x768 fullscreen capture).

On the side of the angels, or at least the Foleys, taking a sidetrip through a
picture editor:

- Allows you to crop away unneeded image and do any other needed editing
- Encourages good work habits (aka sidesteps the whole issue of "When will it
make an OLE object and when won't it)
- Gives you the option of saving as JPG or PNG, whichever is more appropriate
- Gives you a file on disk that you can use in other projects

But for quick one-shot captures, there's no real harm in pasting directly into
PPT.