Send to Word doesn't work in B/W or Grayscale View anymore. It hasn't since
PPT 2000, and I *still* miss it. Microsoft doesn't seem to understand that,
yes, people do still work in black and white. <sigh>
Anyway, when I've been in your position, I usually just create an alternate
color scheme of blacks and whites and apply that before using Send to Word.
PPT 2007 has a grayscale color scheme built in. You can find it on the
Design tab under the Colors button. If you follow your slide color scheme
when creating your file, mapping to the grayscale color scheme goes pretty
smoothly.
For information on color schemes in general, see
http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm (This is for 2003, but the
principle is still the same.)
Oh, in 2007, File | Send to Word is located at Office Button | Publish |
Create Handouts in Word.
The other option is to save as PDF. You'd save the Notes Pages, which will
show your speaker notes. Choose Office Button | Save As | PDF or XPS. Click
Options and choose Notes Pages in the "Publish What" box. Then OK your way
out.
Nuts. Save as PDF also doesn't give you a way to specify black and white or
grayscale. You still have to apply the grayscale color scheme. Microsoft is
*determined* to give us color, isn't it? Argh!
If you have another PDF printer driver, you could use Office Button | Print
and select that PDF driver. Then, lower in the box, choose Notes Pages in
the "print what" box and grayscale (or black and white) in the
Color/Grayscale box.
http://www.rdpslides.com/psfaq/FAQ00008.htm lists a lot
of free and inexpensive PDF drivers you could try.
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What's new in PPT 2007?
http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit
http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx
Graham Mayor said:
While I cannot see an immediate answer to your coloured background issue
to which end I have cross posted to the Powerpoint group (unless the
export of the outline would work for you) copying and pasting individual
slides to a Word document seems unnnecessarily laborious when Powerpoint
provides tools to do this automatically. In Powerpoint 2007 - Office
Button > Publish > Create Handouts in Microsoft Office Word. This creates
a document containing all the images as pngs (or links) one to a page. It
would not then be too much of a stretch to use a Word macro to format
the images to the required size and put two to a page e.g. something along
the lines of
Dim oRng As Word.Range
Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
With oRng
.Style = "Normal"
With .Find
.Text = "^m"
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
With .Find
.Text = "(Slide [0-9]{1,})^13"
.Replacement.Text = "\1"
.Replacement.Style = "Heading 1"
.MatchWildcards = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
For i = .InlineShapes.Count To 1 Step -1
With .InlineShapes(i)
.Height = 302.45
.Width = 403.35
End With
Next i
End With
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Didn't know whether to post this in Word or PowerPoint group.
I have to make workbooks out of PowerPoint slides, up to 80 at a
time. The slides usually have text underneath them.
Unfortunately, most of my slides have a v.dark background and the
only way I can insert them as legible pictures is to have a duplicate
presentation, with a white background theme and black text/lines.
I've found they have to be copied and pasted as pictures individually
(or png in 2007) due to end file size. I was hoping that pasting from
slide sorter when in b&w or greyscale view in 2007 might paste as OK
without the need for a duplicate set of slides, but no such luck,
they still get pasted in Word in colour.
Any ideas would be much appreciated - doing alterations once the two
sets of slides are done risks errors.
Many thanks.