PPT to EDITABLE Word document

[Guest]

Hi. I've been asked to create a proposal (in Word, portrait mode) from a PPT
presentation (landscape mode) ... BUT... all text must be editable and images
positionable. (Send to Word creates a static image of each slide that can't
be edited.) Is there a way to translate ppt slides to a Word document -
ending up with one slide per page? Without copying and pasting content from
100 slides? Many thanks!

 

[Guest]

If you double click on the images, it will bring you into editing mode which
you can still edit and re-position them.
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[Guest]

Thanks for the quick reply!
I'm think what I'm trying to do is break the link between ppt and word. I
CAN Send to Word, double click on each slide, then copy and paste the content
onto the word page. But for more than a few slides, it's pretty hard going!
What would be cool is a utility that would copy all the different types of
objects on each slide and place them as the same type of objects in the same
positions on a Word page. Hmmmm.

 

[Guest]

Not sure if you have tried Paste instead of Paste link though.
If you use Paste, when you double click on the images, you will still be
editing within Word itself.
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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi. I've been asked to create a proposal (in Word, portrait mode) from a PPT
presentation (landscape mode) ... BUT... all text must be editable and images
positionable.

Clients come up with some of the weirdest ideas, don't they?

What about exporting from PPT as WMF or EMF. You can bring those into Word and,
I'm pretty sure, Ungroup and edit.

 

[Guest]

Amen brother~ clients are enormously creative in their requests!

I tried save as wmf / emf but couldn't ungroup. (bummer)
Using clipboard appears to be the way to go - fill it up in ppt, then hop
over to word and dump it out. But it feels like moving an ocean with a
teaspoon. \

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Amen brother~ clients are enormously creative in their requests!

I tried save as wmf / emf but couldn't ungroup. (bummer)

If you're used to DTP apps or PPT, working with pictures in Word is enough to make
you run screaming into the night. And come back with an Uzi. And spray the computer
real good with it. Then douse it in gasoline and ...

Ah. Pardon me. I get carried away with the horribleness of it.

Here's the deal, as I understand it. Insert a picture into Word and you get an
inline graphic. Word won't let you ungroup those.

Because, that's why. ;-)

If you then rightclick it, choose Format Picture and on the Layout tab change to one
of the other wrapping styles, you can then rightclick the picture and ungroup.

 

[Guest]

Amazing! Steve, you ROCK. I learned something new today - and laughed so
hard my sides hurt. Life is good. A perfect solution! (For me)

Now, how do I tell a (l)user to do it for 100+ slides?
For dozens of ppt presentations? Ack.

I still think there oughta be a utility that takes every object on a ppt
slide, notes its position, and writes a page in a word doc with the same
contents, in the same postions.

Thanks again - and have a good weekend.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Amazing! Steve, you ROCK.

Back and forth. Holding my head in my hands ... at the thought of having to do this
hundreds of times. Ouch. ;-)

I learned something new today - and laughed so
hard my sides hurt.

Ah. Well, y'see, there's ouch and there's GOOD ouch.

Now, how do I tell a (l)user to do it for 100+ slides?
For dozens of ppt presentations? Ack.

Do you do any VBA programming? If so, ask in the Public.Office.Developer.xxx sections
related to Word. There may be a relatively easy way to do the *bulk* of the importing.

I still think there oughta be a utility that takes every object on a ppt
slide, notes its position, and writes a page in a word doc with the same
contents, in the same postions.

You wouldn't *believe* how much more stuff you'd have to record about each PPT object in
order to do anything useful with this. And then MS would come along with PPT2007 and a
zillion new properties to keep track of.

Now that I think about it, it might be more useful to work out how to automate the
following from Word:

Open a presentation
For each slide in the presentation
Copy it
Paste to current position in Word
Change the layout to make the graphic NOT inline
Do whatever's needed to move the cursor to end of document for next paste
Close the presentation

In other words, copy/paste gets the job done, you can still ungroup. No need for the
intermediate WMF/EMF step.

Pity I'm utterly clueless about programming Word. But if you can get one of the Wordies
interested, we can help them with the PPT end of things.