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Michael Moser
Hi all,
the deliverables for our current software project include a design
document as well as a presentation to deliver at the end of the
project (sounds familiar...?).
The presentation is more or less done, and now I am writing the
document. But of course I would like to spare me the work of having to
draw all kinds of sketches again in Word and so I would like to "hot
link" some of the drawings from the PPT presentation into the Word
document.
This seems to be more difficult than I had expected! While it is
possible to "Edit => Paste Special" => Paste Link" an entire slide,
this is of course not what I want, since that includes the slide's
header, footer, etc. which looks completely cheap and unprofessional.
I only want the drawing being pasted!
But when I try to paste the drawing only the "Paste Link" option is
grayed out and I can only insert a *copy* of the current picture into
the document. If I modify the picture on the slide later (which is
almost 100% likely to happen) then I would have to repeat this
process.
Funny enough - the inverse seems possible, a drawing created in Word
using "Insert => Object... => Office Drawing Object" can be hot-linked
into a PPT slide using Copy & Edit => Paste Special => "Insert Link".
If only I had known that before!
Because, as a work-around to this asymmetry I tried to move some
pictures over to Word and then hot-link them in the other direction.
But this causes all kind of weird effects. Some seem to be full-blown
bugs (e.g. for no apparent reason some arrow-tips are suddenly HUGE
while most others are perfectly fine. Elements that have filling
effects (patterns or transparency are filled with solid black, etc.),
others are probably due to the fact, that graphic elements and texts
obviously are not scaled alike, i.e. after pasting the text inside
boxes changes has a different size relative to its surrounding
elements, such that some texts suddenly don't fit their boxes or
circles any more, others are wrapped at stupid places, etc.
As workaround I tried to paste the stuff as Extended Meta File (.emf).
While this at first seemed to work perfect, as soon as one wants to
edit that picture, Word declares that to do so it has to convert that
picture into an Office Drawing Object and ask whether one wants to do
so. If clicking OK Word starts consuming 95+ percent CPU and hangs
there. I tried a couple of times, also with different drawings but
always with the same effect. Once I tried and left it running, to see
whether it maybe completes after some longish period time, but after
half an hour I gave up and killed it.
So, what other options are there?
* Is there some other way to hot-link a PowerPoint drawing into Word?
* If not: what options do I have to move or convert an existing ppt
drawing into Word, such that I can later also edit it there?
Michael
the deliverables for our current software project include a design
document as well as a presentation to deliver at the end of the
project (sounds familiar...?).
The presentation is more or less done, and now I am writing the
document. But of course I would like to spare me the work of having to
draw all kinds of sketches again in Word and so I would like to "hot
link" some of the drawings from the PPT presentation into the Word
document.
This seems to be more difficult than I had expected! While it is
possible to "Edit => Paste Special" => Paste Link" an entire slide,
this is of course not what I want, since that includes the slide's
header, footer, etc. which looks completely cheap and unprofessional.
I only want the drawing being pasted!
But when I try to paste the drawing only the "Paste Link" option is
grayed out and I can only insert a *copy* of the current picture into
the document. If I modify the picture on the slide later (which is
almost 100% likely to happen) then I would have to repeat this
process.
Funny enough - the inverse seems possible, a drawing created in Word
using "Insert => Object... => Office Drawing Object" can be hot-linked
into a PPT slide using Copy & Edit => Paste Special => "Insert Link".
If only I had known that before!
Because, as a work-around to this asymmetry I tried to move some
pictures over to Word and then hot-link them in the other direction.
But this causes all kind of weird effects. Some seem to be full-blown
bugs (e.g. for no apparent reason some arrow-tips are suddenly HUGE
while most others are perfectly fine. Elements that have filling
effects (patterns or transparency are filled with solid black, etc.),
others are probably due to the fact, that graphic elements and texts
obviously are not scaled alike, i.e. after pasting the text inside
boxes changes has a different size relative to its surrounding
elements, such that some texts suddenly don't fit their boxes or
circles any more, others are wrapped at stupid places, etc.
As workaround I tried to paste the stuff as Extended Meta File (.emf).
While this at first seemed to work perfect, as soon as one wants to
edit that picture, Word declares that to do so it has to convert that
picture into an Office Drawing Object and ask whether one wants to do
so. If clicking OK Word starts consuming 95+ percent CPU and hangs
there. I tried a couple of times, also with different drawings but
always with the same effect. Once I tried and left it running, to see
whether it maybe completes after some longish period time, but after
half an hour I gave up and killed it.
So, what other options are there?
* Is there some other way to hot-link a PowerPoint drawing into Word?
* If not: what options do I have to move or convert an existing ppt
drawing into Word, such that I can later also edit it there?
Michael