saving annotations

[joshs]

Is there a way to save annotations in PowerPoint 2004 or 2008? Thanks.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Is there a way to save annotations in PowerPoint 2004 or 2008? Thanks.

See if this helps:

Export comments to a text file (PowerPoint 2002 and later)
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00900.htm

At the end it tries to fire up NotePad to view the file ... that's a Windows
thing that won't work on Mac, of course. Delete that bit, comment it out,
ignore the error ... whatever. The rest should work, I think. If not, shout
back and we can see about fixing it.


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[joshs]

Sorry - I tried to compile this and got a bunch of errors, and I don't know enough to fix them.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Sorry - I tried to compile this and got a bunch of errors, and I don't know
enough to fix them.

No problem ... I was hoping that 2008 used the same new-style comments as PPT
2002 and up. Apparently not.

I've done a version of the same code that'll work with earlier PC versions and
should also work on Mac (but take care to delete the bits that the code asks
you to if you're running on Mac).

Export comments to a text file (PowerPoint 2000 and previous, Mac PowerPoint)
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00923.htm

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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[joshs]

Thanks a lot for your help Steve - I'm going to tweak it a bit, but this looks like it will work. Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks a lot for your help Steve - I'm going to tweak it a bit, but this
looks like it will work. Thanks!

Tweak'n'Roll, dude. Any time. <g>

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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