Word to Powerpoint 2007

[Robin9876]

For a Word 2007 document that has text, some headings and images, Is
it possible to automatically import this in to a Powerpoint 2007
presentation.

 

[Luc]

Robin,
Yes it is, go to Home tab, slides group, click on tiny little arrow next to
the insert slide button, at the bottom choose Slides from outline, browse to
your Word document and click insert. Be aware that this will work fine if
you have chosen to apply Headings 1,2,3... in the Word document. For every
new heading 1 title PPT will make a new slide, for every other heading level
it will add a bullet level under that title. Any graphics in the file will
not be inserted.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

For a Word 2007 document that has text, some headings and images, Is
it possible to automatically import this in to a Powerpoint 2007
presentation.

Yes and no. As Luc has explained, you can bring the text in as a series of
slides but that won't bring in the images.

What result are you after? Each page in Word becomes a page in your PPT file
or ...???

 

[Robin9876]

I was after every page in the word document being a page in
powerpoint.

So the only way would be to reformat the document for the text I
wanted imported to be the correct heading level and then copy and
paste the images.

In the meantime I copied and pasted the relevant text and images
between the two applications.

I would have thought that their would be a more integrated approach
between the Office 2007 applications.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I was after every page in the word document being a page in
powerpoint.

Offhand, I don't recall whether Microsoft Document Imaging is included in 2007
but if so, you can print to MODI and export from there as a series of TIFFs, then
use one of the various batch import techniques to bring the images into PPT

BATCH IMPORT images into PowerPoint
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00050.htm

There are other ways of getting an image from each page in the Word doc (print to
the SnagIt printer driver if you have SnagIt, print to PDF then export from PDF
to images, if you have Acrobat, etc).

I would have thought that their would be a more integrated approach
between the Office 2007 applications.

It would've been convenient if there had been, certainly. But for the most part,
Word docs make lousy presentations and PPT presentations make lousy printed docs,
so there's really not all that much call to move back and forth between them as
is, so MS probably didn't see the need to spend dev resources on that.