Copy and paste text with bullets or outlinenumbered between Word and Power point

[new2mac]

Back in the days when I used a PC (which was last week), I could copy and paste bulleted text from the outline of a Powerpoint presentation and copy it into a Word document without losing formatting. As a student, I copy hundreds of lines from a Powerpoint outline into a Word document per lecture presentation. On my new Mac (leopard OS, office 2008), when I do that, 2 problems result:

1. The outline formatting is lost. All lines of text are on the same level.
2. The character "n" is present where the bullet (shown below as an *) once was. For example:

In Powerpoint: *List of Causes
copied into Word: nList of Causes

Please let me know if there is a simple solution to this problem. Note that both Word and Powerpoint are the 2008 versions.

 

[John McGhie]

When you paste, you will see a little floating toolbar.

From that, choose "Keep Source Formatting".

In Word, formatting is controlled by styles. PowerPoint does not use
styles, so the result is pretty appalling. Only the font formatting comes
across.

That's a bug.

I suggest that you paste, then flip into Outline View in Word, and use tabs
to set the indents. As you do this, the Outline View will automatically set
the correct styles for you.

Hope this helps

Back in the days when I used a PC (which was last week), I could copy and
paste bulleted text from the outline of a Powerpoint presentation and copy it
into a Word document without losing formatting. As a student, I copy hundreds
of lines from a Powerpoint outline into a Word document per lecture
presentation. On my new Mac (leopard OS, office 2008), when I do that, 2
problems result:

1. The outline formatting is lost. All lines of text are on the same level.
2. The character "n" is present where the bullet (shown below as an *) once
was. For example:

In Powerpoint: *List of Causes
copied into Word: nList of Causes

Please let me know if there is a simple solution to this problem. Note that
both Word and Powerpoint are the 2008 versions.

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