Powerpoint & Word

[news]

Hi,

I've created a MS Word document by using the 'Send to' command on the
Powerpoint File menu. I checked the Paste & Link button. I'm using
Office 2003.

Now I have 2 problems:

1/ I need to insert a newly created slide in the Word doc and the
orginal presentation so they can stay in synch.

2/ I need to import a single slide into the Word doc and the orginal
presentation so they can still stay in synch.

I've tried a lot of stuff including all the options on the Word
Insert/Object/Powerpoint Slide & Presentation, plus just updating the
original Powerpoint and then getting Word to update, but unfortunately
Word doesn't acknowledge the new objects.

Can someone help? BTIA

Michael.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Michael,

I tried this PPT/Word integration a while back when I noticed it in my
new upgrade to Office 2003. I failed miserably in making it work. Your
posting prompted me to try gain. Failed miserably again. For example,
text in main PPT page updates (when using paste/link), but PPT notes
aren't. I'm probably doing something wrong.

I'm not sure this all works as we expect--although it might work as
Microsoft intended ... don't know.

My advice: work in one or the other tool until completed, and then if
you need it in the other tool, only then do a one-time "send-to" and
live with results, or do the minor fix-ups. Put your energy into making
a dynamite document/presentation instead of figuring out PPT/Word.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Martin]

Hi,

I've created a MS Word document by using the 'Send to' command on the
Powerpoint File menu. I checked the Paste & Link button. I'm using
Office 2003.

Now I have 2 problems:

1/ I need to insert a newly created slide in the Word doc and the
orginal presentation so they can stay in synch.

2/ I need to import a single slide into the Word doc and the orginal
presentation so they can still stay in synch.

I've tried a lot of stuff including all the options on the Word
Insert/Object/Powerpoint Slide & Presentation, plus just updating the
original Powerpoint and then getting Word to update, but unfortunately
Word doesn't acknowledge the new objects.

Can someone help? BTIA

Michael.

Have you applied the Office 2003 update?

 

[Rob Schneider]

What update?

Only one seeminging available (via
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/default.aspx?CTT=6&Origin=EC790020111033
which then shows an Office XP Service Pack 2 which I am loath to install
on Office 2003) is Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter Update: KB832333
which on the face of it doesn't seem to address this problem. Or is the
Office XP pack supposed to be applied to Office 2003 and if so why is it
labeled this way?


rms

 

[news]

Rob,

I agree that the easiest thing is to complete the ppts and then do a
one time send to Word and afterwards to work parallel in both. In
fact, I first did this using the Paste only option because I could see
this problem coming. But the company I'm doing this for has exacting
mehtods of creating this stuff and specifies Paste & Link, so I re-did
it that way. I also thought that it might really mean PASTE & LINK
implying that I could add/delete or modify slides at whim and have the
changes appear in the word doc. Now I realized that this is not the
case and my querying here was a last resort. I will just make the
additional slide elements I need twice. Thanks for thelp.

Michael.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Maybe the company can help you do it since they must have figured out
how. (Seems kinda silly to me anyway ... Word and PowerPoint are two
different tools).

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms