Cheap & Fast way to translate Word doc into PPT file?

[Sandra]

Anyone know if there's a quick and easy way to make a word document
become a ppt presentation?

(I'm working in Office '98 on OS 9.2)

The word doc is broken up into pages which need to be translated into
slides. I'd *like* to avoid having to copy, switch apps, paste, new
slide, switch apps, copy, switch apps, paste, new slide...

The *real* answer is to teach my co-worker to type his copy directly
into PPT instead of giving it to me in word, but in the meatime I've
got this word document that really wants to be a powerpoint...

thanks for any suggestions!

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi Sandra

The cheap, fast & easy way is to use Word's File menu. Choose Send To >
Microsoft PowerPoint

Once you have it in PowerPoint go to the slide master and choose a nice
format.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Sandra]

Thanks Jim,

That's exactly the sort of cheap & easy solution I was looking for -
only problem is it seems to put each new paragraph on a page on a new
slide (at least that seems to be the pattern as best as I can figure).

I was hoping that maybe each page would be a slide. So it looks like
I'll either have to re-format the word doc, or just do the copy-switch
apps-paste-switch apps-copy-ad nauseum thing...

Hmmmmm... There doesn't seem to be a way to control *how* it converts
it to PPT - am I missing anything?

Thanks,
Sandra

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi

You're not missing anything.

But your suggestion sounds very worthwhile, and I am sure that the
PowerPoint Mac team would be interested in your suggestions about how to
make that process work better.

Please take a moment to describe how you would like Send To PowerPoint to
work and send your description to Microsoft using this URL:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

Even as we type they are working on the next version of Office. Who knows?
If they like your ideas you might find them in a future version of Office.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

That's exactly the sort of cheap & easy solution I was looking for -

only problem is it seems to put each new paragraph on a page on a new
slide (at least that seems to be the pattern as best as I can figure).

It may help to save as text with tabbed indents.

This will become a new slide
This will become a first level bullet on the new slide
This will become a second level bullet
And so forth
And now we're back out to the left so it becomes a new slide

 

[Sandra]

Thanks for the tip Steve! This should help speed things up a bit...
Much appreciated!
-Sandra

 

[AES/newspost]

I was hoping that maybe each page would be a slide. So it looks like
I'll either have to re-format the word doc, or just do the copy-switch
apps-paste-switch apps-copy-ad nauseum thing...

Print to a PDF file. Acrobat Reader has excellent slide projection
capabilities (it's called "Full Screen"), and with full-bore Acrobat you
can add excellent slide sorting, editing, and slide replacing
capabilities, plus numerous additional capabilities for linking between
slides or to external files.