Exporting to Word

[Fran McConville]

I've looked at slide-into-word but still can't get what I'm looking for. I
need to generate a course manual, which is basically a handout with 2 slides
per page. No notes, no slide numbers, just the image of two slides per page.
I need to do this in a word document so that I can insert portions of text or
additional pages where I need to, repaginate as necessary, then print out as
many copies as I need. I'd like to be able to combine several ppt
presentations into one single word document for the convenience of page
numbering and printing. Any thought on this?

Thanks!

 

[Sandy]

I think I understand what you want to accomplish -- and
you can do this best within PowerPoint. Click File >
Print then Print What and Select Handouts 2 per page.

 

[PPTMagician]

Choose the Slide with lines below option when creating your document. Then
do a search and replace to replace all the lines with nothing. Or if you
have Adobe Acrobat, you can print the two slide layout to a PDF and then
using Acrobat save it as a Word doc.

Glenna

 

[Fran McConville]

Thanks for your answers. The two-slide handout is how I'm doing it
presently. It gives me the end result I want, but it means I have to print
out every powerpoint presentation 2-sided, insert additional text pages as
needed, combine them all, re-run them through my printer to number the pages
(both sides) then make photocopies of that original. It's impossible to make
a minor change to the program.

I need an electronic version of that 2-page handout....

Exporting to word with lines below could work, but I would have to manually
delete the slide numbers and the lines, and then the slide images are too
small so I would have to manually resize each one. I've got a total of some
400 slides in 9 ppt files.

I'm intrigued by the Acrobat idea. I don't have Acrobat but I will get it if
you think it would work. Do you mean, Glenna, that I would be able to "print"
the 2-slide handout to a pdf, then convert it to Word?

-Fran

 

[PPTMagician]

Yes, print the 2 slide layout to a pdf, open the pdf in Acrobat and save it
as an RTF (rich text format). Then open the rtf file in Word. Works
perfectly. You can also save it as a Word doc, but I got better results with
the rtf.

Glenna

 

[Fran McConville]

Belay that last message -

I'm discovering the power of Acrobat (good ol' Aobe!) - Forget about
Word...I have found that it's much easier to create the whole course manual
as a pdf. I can print my 2-page powerpoint handouts to a pdf, open it in
acrobat, add sections as necessary, rearrange it, repaginate, whatever, then
save it as a pdf for my service bureau to print! This is the way to go!