PP Slides copied to Word

[Guest]

In my older version of PowerPoint (I think it might have been '97), I was
able to copy/paste individual slides in PowerPoint to a table cell in a Word
document. Specifically, I was able to make the slide that got copied into
Word black and white by first choosing the grayscale VIEW in the Powerpoint
document, then going to the OUTLINE view (where you see tiny versions of the
slides on the screen at the same time), right clicking on a slide, choosing
Copy, then going to the table cell in the Word document, and pasting the
slide into it. The slide would fill the cell, and would be black and white.

Now, with my PowerPoint 2003, I follow the SAME procedure and get the COLOR
version of the slide pasted, and it doesn't go right into the table cell.

Is there any way to get this old pasting cabability back with PowerPoint 2003?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Now, with my PowerPoint 2003, I follow the SAME procedure and get the COLOR

version of the slide pasted, and it doesn't go right into the table cell.

Is there any way to get this old pasting cabability back with PowerPoint 2003?

That worked through PPT 2000. For some reason, MS considered it a bug and fixed
it. Sure wish they'd spent the time fixing something that was really broke ...
:-(

One workaround that just occurred to me:

Office 2003 comes with the Microsoft Document Imaging (MODI) printer driver (I
think it's an optional install ... if you don't have it, rerun Office Setup and
choose a custom install to add it).

Open your presentation
Choose File, Print
Pick the MODI driver
Choose Grayscale or Pure B/W (it'll default to color)
Print to an MDI file.
The MDI should open automatically in the MODI viewer.
From there, you can choose File, Save As and save to a TIFF file that you can
pop into Word.

Or right click a page and choose Copy Image, then paste directly into Word.

A bit roundabout, but it should work fairly well.

Another approach, if you have Acrobat, would be to print to PDF then export the
PDF pages as images.