Powerpoint File conversion

[Patrick]

Does anyone know how I can take a multiple page Word document and convert it
into a PowerPoint presentation? I have posted the same in the Microsoft Word
discussion group hoping someone has the answers and how to....

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

In most cases, you don't want to do that because you end up with a really
bad PowerPoint. However, if you must, the conversion is done based on the
Heading Level of the text in the Word document. Heading 1 will be slide
titles. Heading 2 will be slide text. You should be able to choose Send to
and Microsoft Office PowerPoint from the File menu in Word.
--David

 

[mwb]

One "quick" way is to open a Word document in PowerPoint. PP will use
Headings to separate your text into different levels. Heading 1 style will
become slide title text with subheadings (Headings 2, 3, etc.) being
tranformed into multilevel bullets. Text in Normal style is lost. But I
guess the point is you wouldn't want all that text on your slides anyway,
just the headings.

 

[Patrick]

I actually do need everything from the Word doc to show up in the
presentation. Each page needs to be a new slide

 

[mwb]

Patrick,

I'm not sure how to reply to that. Assuming you have "full" pages of text
in Word, your audience will run screaming from the room if you load that all
on one slide. But what I'm imagining to be in your Word document and what
your document actually contains may be two wildly different things.

Continuing on the first suggestion, you can always convert your "normal"
text to a low level Heading (4 or 5). Then it will open up in PP also.

And alternative is to use copy and paste, then do some (alot of?) clean up,
all in Outline view. The text gets dumped into the title text area.
Pressing <Enter> will send the following text to another slide. Pressing tab
in the title text will pull the following text up into the previous slide's
bulleted content placeholder. Then you can add or remove bullets and adjust
your bullet levels from there. Tedious, but it might work for you.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I actually do need everything from the Word doc to show up in the
presentation. Each page needs to be a new slide

Do you need it to be editable in PPT, or would an image of each Word page do the
job?