outlines to powerpoint

[Micah Brodsky]

Does anyone know how to get OneNote outlines into PowerPoint intact? When I
tried it, PowerPoint utterly mangled the indentation, and I ended up having
to flatten the outline and re-indent it in PowerPoint -- a pain in the butt.
Any thoughts?
I tried copy & paste, I tried saving as RTF and importing, I tried using
Word as an intermediary; all produced the same results.

Thanks.
--Micah

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

You may have better luck using Word as an interim step, as Word seems to
be smarter about both retaining the outline format for text pasted from
OneNote and about retaing the outline format when pasting into
PowerPoint.

Having said that, I just tried a few methods for transferring an outline
into PowerPoint, and either got one line per slide (no matter what the
original indentation, etc.) or a single slide with the pasted text
outlined on it.

ISTR you have to explicitly set the outline levels in Word for the text
to flow correctly in PowerPoint.

 

[Kathy J]

Micah,
Sorry I didn't see this yesterday, or I would have answered then. What is
going on is that your entire outline is going into a title slide in PPT. You
need to add a blank slide before the OneNote outline. Then, the outline will
go in as one slide and you can adjust the indentations outward for each
slide. For pictures and more details, see this article on my site:
http://www.onenoteanswers.com/onenote_article4.htm

Another way to do it is to copy and paste your outline to Notepad and then
follow the directions in this entry from Steve Rindsberg's PPT FAQ:
Create a PowerPoint presentation from a plain text file
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00246.htm

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Co-Author of Life on OneNote from Holy Macro! Books
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[Micah Brodsky]

Ahh, much better. Thanks!

--Micah