Importing PPT into Word Document

[Tom Hall]

Office 2003 Professional Edition.

I've created a one-page PowerPoint presentation which I am trying to import
into a Word document. It never occurred to me that this might not be
possible, but so far the only option I've found is to create a presentation
inside the Word document.

I spent a lot of time on the PowerPoint slide and would hate to have to
recreate it from scratch. Is there any way of importing the PPT file into
my Word document?

The closest I've been able to come to achieving my objective is to save the
PPT as a GIF file and import that into the Word document, but this means
that if I want to make any changes to the slide, I would have to edit the
PPT, re-save it as a GIF, and re-import the GIF into my Word document?

Is there a way of importing the PPT directly into the Word document?


Tom

 

[CyberTaz]

Have you tried Insert> Object> Create From File & check the box for "Link to
File"?

Or you can right-click & copy the slide in the Slides panel of your
presentation file, then go to the doc & use Edit> Paste Special, click Paste
Link: - either way results in essentally the same thing since there is only
one slide in the PPt file.

How you came up with that workaround without stumbling across these other
options is amazing

For future reference you may also want to take a look at PPt's File> Send
To> Microsoft Word feature.

 

[FossMan]

I'm using Office 2003. I just created a new PPT file, inserted a bunch of
clip art, hit ctrl-a, ctrl-c, then went into Word and hit ctrl-v. Everything
looks great. What is your process of getting the data into Word?

 

[Tom Hall]

Have you tried Insert> Object> Create From File & check the box for "Link to
File"?

Or you can right-click & copy the slide in the Slides panel of your
presentation file, then go to the doc & use Edit> Paste Special, click Paste
Link: - either way results in essentally the same thing since there is only
one slide in the PPt file.

How you came up with that workaround without stumbling across these other
options is amazing

For future reference you may also want to take a look at PPt's File> Send
To> Microsoft Word feature.

It is amazing that I didn't find your option, or think of the approach the
other person who replied mentioned.

Basically I'm creating a document that will be edited and maintained by
other people whose level of expertise with Word is unknown, so I was really
looking for some way of importing the PPT that would allow editing from
within the Word document.

Both methods here seem to do the trick.

Thanks again to you both.


Tom

 

[Tom Hall]

I'm using Office 2003. I just created a new PPT file, inserted a bunch of
clip art, hit ctrl-a, ctrl-c, then went into Word and hit ctrl-v. Everything
looks great. What is your process of getting the data into Word?

I saved the PPT as a GIF and then imported that into Word. Your solution
was so simple; I'm astounded that I never thought of it.

Thanks for your help.


Tom

 

[CyberTaz]

If you mean the suggestion by FossMan - no disrespect intended - but the
consideration there is that you don't actually get the *slide* pasted into
the doc - instead you get only its "superficial" content. ClipArt & certain
other objects may paste in OK, but anything on the master slide won't
transfer nor will many of the formatting effects used in the actual slide.
Since what gets pasted is pasted as MS Office Drawing Objects you don't have
any of PPt's features available to make your changes... Word has far fewer
graphic capabilities than PPt.

 

[Tom Hall]

If you mean the suggestion by FossMan - no disrespect intended - but the
consideration there is that you don't actually get the *slide* pasted into
the doc - instead you get only its "superficial" content. ClipArt & certain
other objects may paste in OK, but anything on the master slide won't
transfer nor will many of the formatting effects used in the actual slide.
Since what gets pasted is pasted as MS Office Drawing Objects you don't have
any of PPt's features available to make your changes... Word has far fewer
graphic capabilities than PPt.

I see what you mean now. I've used your suggestion to include the PPT in
the Word document. As I said in my last post, others will be responsible
for maintaining this file and I'm trying to keep it as simple as I can so
that they can continue to edit without coming back to me and saying "how
did you do this...?"


Tom