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Jim Gordon MVP
On the other hand you could say that knowing that Mac Word doesn't
support OLE Level 2 that it would have been a whole lot more sensible
for the makers of Send to Word feature in Windows to have thought just a
moment or two more and created links to a PowerPoint presentation file
instead of embedding the objects. That way the workflow would be almost
the same but it would work cross platform. The makers of the Send to
Word macro took a little shortcut with OLE 2 that cuts out some
interoperability.
That being the case, since you work in a cross-platform shop it wouldn't
be too much of a trick to make a macro that works both in Mac PPT and
Windows PPT that does what I described. The Macro would build a document
that looks the same in Word, but instead of embedding using OLE2 it
would save a picture and link to the appropriate slide in the
presentation. As a bonus you can control the dpi and format of the image
(probably important when you go to print the manual).
-Jim
support OLE Level 2 that it would have been a whole lot more sensible
for the makers of Send to Word feature in Windows to have thought just a
moment or two more and created links to a PowerPoint presentation file
instead of embedding the objects. That way the workflow would be almost
the same but it would work cross platform. The makers of the Send to
Word macro took a little shortcut with OLE 2 that cuts out some
interoperability.
That being the case, since you work in a cross-platform shop it wouldn't
be too much of a trick to make a macro that works both in Mac PPT and
Windows PPT that does what I described. The Macro would build a document
that looks the same in Word, but instead of embedding using OLE2 it
would save a picture and link to the appropriate slide in the
presentation. As a bonus you can control the dpi and format of the image
(probably important when you go to print the manual).
-Jim