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Judy T.
For many years now, we have taken existing Word documents and put them into
PowerPoint so that others could use them for presentations.
To do this, we use a Word template with styles. The template page is sized
to a standard PowerPoint slide size. The style names are the same as in the
original Word document, but the fonts are larger/colored, so they'll work for
slide material.
This allows us to copy the original Word content directly into the template,
then edit it so it fits on a slide-by-slide basis. By doing this in Word, we
don't have to re-enter content, and the styles handle most of the formatting
automatically.
We then cut-and-paste each Word page into a slide in PowerPoint, using the
Paste Special/Word Document Object command. A tedious process, but we've
never figured out anything better.
The material doesn't always come in perfectly in PPT, though. So in the
past, we've double-clicked on the object to open the Word editor, made the
needed editing changes, and clicked back into PPT.
Now, using Word 2003 and PPT 2003, double-clicking on an object still takes
us into the Word editor. But without our doing anything, the font formatting
changes completely: headings become bulleted items; the fonts change; color
in the fonts disappears; numbered lists go awry; you get the idea. The only
way we can get the formatting back is by clicking back into PPT and using the
Undo command.
If we use PPT 2003 to click into slides we created in earlier versions of
Word/PPT, we don't have a problem.
What's the workaround for this problem? Or is there a better way to get Word
content into PPT to begin with? (In my experimenting, the Word Outline
View/Export doesn't allow for enough formatting variations; the PPT Insert
Object File option only puts in the first page, as many others have noted
here.)
Thanks so much for your help!
PowerPoint so that others could use them for presentations.
To do this, we use a Word template with styles. The template page is sized
to a standard PowerPoint slide size. The style names are the same as in the
original Word document, but the fonts are larger/colored, so they'll work for
slide material.
This allows us to copy the original Word content directly into the template,
then edit it so it fits on a slide-by-slide basis. By doing this in Word, we
don't have to re-enter content, and the styles handle most of the formatting
automatically.
We then cut-and-paste each Word page into a slide in PowerPoint, using the
Paste Special/Word Document Object command. A tedious process, but we've
never figured out anything better.
The material doesn't always come in perfectly in PPT, though. So in the
past, we've double-clicked on the object to open the Word editor, made the
needed editing changes, and clicked back into PPT.
Now, using Word 2003 and PPT 2003, double-clicking on an object still takes
us into the Word editor. But without our doing anything, the font formatting
changes completely: headings become bulleted items; the fonts change; color
in the fonts disappears; numbered lists go awry; you get the idea. The only
way we can get the formatting back is by clicking back into PPT and using the
Undo command.
If we use PPT 2003 to click into slides we created in earlier versions of
Word/PPT, we don't have a problem.
What's the workaround for this problem? Or is there a better way to get Word
content into PPT to begin with? (In my experimenting, the Word Outline
View/Export doesn't allow for enough formatting variations; the PPT Insert
Object File option only puts in the first page, as many others have noted
here.)
Thanks so much for your help!