Using slides in other formats

[yellowhouse1976]

Hi

I am running Office 2003 on XP and I do a lot of design work in Powerpoint.
I find that the best way to keep my designs as intended is to do a screen
shot of them and then drop the image into whatever Word document I am working
on. I then crop the screen shot leaving just the image. This works well but
due to the quality of the printers I have to use the image can become a
little fuzzy round the edges.

I was thinking that if there was a way to save the screen shot as a jpg or
similar then this might alleviate the problem. I have tried to copy the
screen shot into Picture Manager and then crop and save but it doesnt seem to
work. Does anyone know if this can be done either in Picture Manager or
another free MS programme?

Failing that any suggestions on how best to get complicated designs done in
Powerpoint into other formats such as Word. I have tried the 'Grouping'
option but it is weak and does stay together as intended. I have also tried
the option for sending slides images to Word but it is messy and the image
quality is actually better by doing a screen shot.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

You can use Save As and look for JPG or PNG or GIF or BMP or... Type of file

 

[Michael Koerner]

You can do a Save As and choose the image type of your choice. I would
choose .png You also might want to look here to see how to increase the
export resolution of your images. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827745

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


message Hi

I am running Office 2003 on XP and I do a lot of design work in Powerpoint.
I find that the best way to keep my designs as intended is to do a screen
shot of them and then drop the image into whatever Word document I am
working
on. I then crop the screen shot leaving just the image. This works well
but
due to the quality of the printers I have to use the image can become a
little fuzzy round the edges.

I was thinking that if there was a way to save the screen shot as a jpg or
similar then this might alleviate the problem. I have tried to copy the
screen shot into Picture Manager and then crop and save but it doesnt seem
to
work. Does anyone know if this can be done either in Picture Manager or
another free MS programme?

Failing that any suggestions on how best to get complicated designs done in
Powerpoint into other formats such as Word. I have tried the 'Grouping'
option but it is weak and does stay together as intended. I have also tried
the option for sending slides images to Word but it is messy and the image
quality is actually better by doing a screen shot.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks

 

[yellowhouse1976]

Thank you so much, you must think i am such an idiot to go about it in such a
long winded way. I will definitely also try your suggestion of increasing
the resolution. This is great help, thanks so much

 

[yellowhouse1976]

Thanks, have changed the registry and will see how that works, will look at
what you sent as well. Am having a great afternoon learning all types of
things

 

[Michael Koerner]

Everyone gets to the finish line in their own way <g>

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


message Thank you so much, you must think i am such an idiot to go about it in such
a
long winded way. I will definitely also try your suggestion of increasing
the resolution. This is great help, thanks so much

 

[yellowhouse1976]

hi Michael

Quick question. I changed the registry to increase my resolution when saving
as a giff or jpg but I notice that is affecting the way that the design on
the slide now looks. I am getting a kind of faint checkered effect which from
comments from colleagues seems to be more prominent on their machines then
when I look at it on mine. Any suggestions please?

Thanks

Jude

 

[yellowhouse1976]

I will give it a go. I am saving slides as jpgs and then emailing them to
people. I am wondering if it has anything to do with colleagues using 2007
and vista. Could this affect what they are seeing?

 

[yellowhouse1976]

Thanks Steve. Saving it as PNG seems to have done the trick, the weird
checkered effect has disappeared when I look at it on someone elses machine.
It's weird that when I saved them as jpgs the weird effect thing only showed
up on some machines and not all.