One textbox per word

[alh]

Hi:

I'm wondering whether there is an easy way to take a text file (.txt or
similar) of about 100 words and import into a PP slide whereby each
word is a separate textbox. It's for a Latin project in which I'd like
my students to be able to re-arrange the words easily. Of course, I
could create 100 textboxes and type in the 100 words, but I'm hoping
there's some sort of shortcut for such a task around there.

Any advice?

Thanks,
Tony

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi Tony,

The only way I can think of without vba...

Place the text in a single text box on a slide. Use you mouse to select
individual words, and drag and drop them out of the text box onto the slide
somewhere else. Bit tedious, though but I have done it here before.

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia

glen at powerpointworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, whether
your cows are in the corn paddock, or
anything else relevant.

 

[alh]

Thanks for the responses. Powerpoint 2003 with XP. I don't have a clue
about vba and there are no cows in my corn paddock, but if it would
help, I'll chase them there! Glen's idea, is very possible. I could put
two copies of the same text on a slide-one as the master with the
original Latin word order and the second for re-arranging. And, I
didn't realize that a simple double click and drag of a word out of the
box would create a new textbox. Thanks! But any quick methods of just
copying a text file into a slide and, voila!, each word had its own
textbox would also be greatly appreciated.

Tony

 

[Glen Millar]

Tony,

It's good your cows aren't in the corn. Believe me. I've chased plenty of
them! I'd rather copy a hundred words out of a text box than chase cows
<vbg>.

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia

glen at powerpointworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, whether
your cows are in the corn paddock, or
anything else relevant.

 

[Glen Millar]

Amazing! Well done, Steve!

(I would have figured that out given enough sleeps <vbg>.)

And if you don't have one word per cell, say, by pasting in, you can always
do a text to columns sort!