Copy and Paste to Powerpoint

[mejohnson5259]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I am trying to take a word doc (a paragraph) to my powerpoint presentation. When I copy and paste, it shows up in powerpoint, but I can not edit or change any fonts
I am also using powerpoint 2008 for mac THANKS!!

 

[CyberTaz]

Make sure you click in a placeholder or text box before pasting -- otherwise
the content gets pasted as a picture or as a MS Word Document Object. Text
alone cannot exist in a n editable form unless it's constrained in a
container of some sort.

 

[mejohnson5259]

Thanks for the quick help. As I have tried to copy and paste the paragraph, I have done the following:
1) Highlight and copy the paragraph
2) Switch over to powerpoint, open a text box and click paste
3) The text box disappears, and the copied text shows up in the middle of the powerpoint slide

 

[CyberTaz]

What you describe suggests that you are merely selecting the Text Box as a
graphic object. If you simply select the text box the program is in 'object
mode' which is why a new object is being created. Make certain that you have
a flashing insertion point inside the text box when you paste. It may be
necessary ro Control/Right-Click the Text Box to select the Edit Text
command if it's a pre-existing box with no content.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac