"PowerPoint couldn't write to Microsoft Word"

[arrrrgh.]

When I try to send my PowerPoint notes to Word (File > Send to... >
Microsoft Word) I get this warning, "PowerPoint couldn't write to Microsoft
Word". I am trying to send them as 'notes next to slides' for large
presentations- 60+ slides. When this happens, only a handful of slides are
sent to Word.

This is infuriating and a huge waste of my time. Please help me get this to
work.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

What is the size of the Word file? I've run into a few cases where large
PPT files will crash the native 'Send To Word' function (much as you have
described).

You may want to try the free demo of my PowerPoint add-in "SlideIntoWord".
It creates smaller, faster Word documents from the slides and notes of a
PowerPoint presentation.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org/SlideIntoWord.htm

Recently I released a PowerPoint 2007 version, so as long as you are using
PowerPoint 2000 or newer, it might be your solution.


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[CTURNER82]

Does PPT 2007 have a way to do this without adding in additional software?
(I've found instructions for 2003 but not 2007.)
Thanks!

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Yes, Send Slides To Word, but you said it wasn't working for you.

PowerPoint 2007 add-in installation instructions will be coming soon.

--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
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vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
com www.pptfaq.com
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[arrrrgh.]

Thank you for your help but unfortunately this still doesn't work. I opened
the demo and then opened my PowerPoint presentation from the demo window and
it still couldn't write past slide 5. The file is 18,908 k. Surely I'm not
the only person who has large images in my slides. Did I not access the demo
properly? It opened as a black PowerPoint presentation.

Thanks,
Caroline

 

[Erblemoof]

How to correct the problem "PowerPoint couldn't write to Microsoft Word"

Very frequently, the reason the handout export crashes is because the temporary file folders for PowerPoint and/or Word are full. You can clear those temp folders by doing the following:

1. If either Word or PowerPoint are already running, exit them.
2. Open a command prompt as the user, then enter the following commands (note the quotes are wrong in this post, so don’t cut and paste these commands)
3. CD "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.MSO"
a. ERASE *.* (make sure you're in the correct directory and if so, select "Y" to continue)
b. FOR /f %s in ('dir /b/a') do rd /s/q %s
4. CD "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Word"
a. ERASE *.* (make sure you’re in the correct directory and if so, select "Y" to continue)
b. FOR /f %s in ('dir /b/a') do rd /s/q %s

Now start up PowerPoint and try the export again. It should work this time.

Note that you might be able to use Windows Explorer to empty the folders; I'm a command line guy so that's how I personally do it.