printing handouts

P

Phil

Is there anyway without using third party software to
print handouts where you can print multiple slides to a
page for most slides in the presentation, but selectively
pick one slide to be printed full page in the handout.
 
S

Sonia

No. You but you could do a selective printout of the slides in Handout
format and then print the individual slide separately.
 
P

Phil

We typically email our powerpoints to remote sites that
are viewing a class over a videoconference. People at
those sites are responsible for printing out the handouts
from the powerpoint and distributing them to students.
The handouts are essential to allow reading busy slides
that come across the videoconference. What I was hoping
to find was to create powerpoint presentations at my
location that could be emailed containg the necessary
printing information that would allow busy slides printed
full page. Your solution would work for the local site
here, but it would be difficult to get the remote
locations to print out certain pages that we dictate as
needing to be full page.
 
K

Kathryn Jacobs

If you are willing to build a second document, you can do this via File -->
Send to --> Word. Process is basically:
1) Send the PowerPoint presentation to word twice. First time, send it with
multiple slides on a page. Second time, send it with just the slides. Both
times, be sure to send linked.
2) With both Word documents open, go to the single page slide. (In the
single slide per page, this will be on its own page, in the other document,
you will need to find it in the table.
3) In the multiple slides to a page document, split the Word table above the
row with the single page slide. Insert a page break, a return, and another
page break. Remove the row with the single page slide.
4) In the other Word document, select the slide graphic and copy it.
5) Go back to the multiple slide Word document and paste the graphic between
the page breaks.
6) Save the multiple slide Word document. (This is the one you are going to
send to the other locations.)
7) Switch to, close and don't save the single slide Word document. (This
should put you back at the Word document you saved.)
8) Break the links between the Word document and the PowerPoint document by
doing an Edit --> Links. On the window that appears, select all the links
and remove/break them. (You do this to greatly decrease the file size.)

You now should have handouts the way you want them. If you want, you can
even clean up the file by adding headers, footers, title pages, etc.

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Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft PPT MVP
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S

Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP

All of you MSofties cover your eyes and ears. I'm about to say a nasty word
to Phil.

Phil: PDF

You can print handouts to one PDF, slides to another then bring pages from
the slide PDF into the middle of the handout PDF file using Acrobat.
 
K

Kathryn Jacobs

Because if you don't send them linked, you can't break the links. In other
words, there is no way to make the Word file a reasonable size if you don't
start with the Word and PowerPoint files linked. (Drives me nuts, but we
live with it....)

By the way, if anyone knows a way to make the file size in Word shrink if
you don't do the link then break thing, I would love to know about it!

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft PPT MVP
If this helped you, please take the time to rate the value of this post:
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Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
Cook anything outdoors with http://www.outdoorcook.com
Kathy is a trainer, writer, Girl Scout, and whatever else there is time for
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
 

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