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revduke123
Hi all,
{I'm using Mac OS X, powerpint for mac 2004, but exactly the same
issue applies to my other computer, a PC laptop with Powerpoint 2000]
I'm trying to convert masses of ppt files to word. Encountered a
problem with first file!
The file contains several slides each of which has a title and one
text box.
To convert the files, I select all the slides in outline view, then
copy, then paste into a new Word doc.
problem: SOME of the slides copy correctly, some of them only the
title is copied across.
Manually collapsing / expanding the outline in outline view makes no
difference.
If I do "send to Word" (instead of using copy / paste, I get the same
behaviour, but there are further formatting issues which arise which I
don't want to deal with right now. First of all I want to understand
the outline / collapse behaviour.
I've found a bizarre fix by accident:
If, on the slides which only seem to paste the title, I select the
title in outline view, then indent (ie promote) it and un-indent it,
and repeat the
whole procedure, the file is correctly pasted (or Send-ed) into Word.
Why is this happening? How can I convert files without this hassle?
The text in question appears fine in the outline view and so I do not
believe it is an issue with placeholders.
As a follow-up question, is there a way to batch-process hundreds of
these files?
thanks very much to anyone who can help,
the dukester,
{I'm using Mac OS X, powerpint for mac 2004, but exactly the same
issue applies to my other computer, a PC laptop with Powerpoint 2000]
I'm trying to convert masses of ppt files to word. Encountered a
problem with first file!
The file contains several slides each of which has a title and one
text box.
To convert the files, I select all the slides in outline view, then
copy, then paste into a new Word doc.
problem: SOME of the slides copy correctly, some of them only the
title is copied across.
Manually collapsing / expanding the outline in outline view makes no
difference.
If I do "send to Word" (instead of using copy / paste, I get the same
behaviour, but there are further formatting issues which arise which I
don't want to deal with right now. First of all I want to understand
the outline / collapse behaviour.
I've found a bizarre fix by accident:
If, on the slides which only seem to paste the title, I select the
title in outline view, then indent (ie promote) it and un-indent it,
and repeat the
whole procedure, the file is correctly pasted (or Send-ed) into Word.
Why is this happening? How can I convert files without this hassle?
The text in question appears fine in the outline view and so I do not
believe it is an issue with placeholders.
As a follow-up question, is there a way to batch-process hundreds of
these files?
thanks very much to anyone who can help,
the dukester,