Template used by Project 2003 to produce powerpoint slide

[Totte]

Hi
I know that one could use the "Copy Picture to Office Wizard" for generating
PowerPoint presentations. But, what PowerPoint template is used? I'd like to
use our company standard template. What setting do I modify?
Regards

 

[JulieS]

Hi Totte,

As far as I know, the template used for the PowerPoint presentation is
coded into the Wizard which runs when you select the toolbar button.
However, all the Wizard really does it take a picture of the Gantt
Chart, add it to a single slide with a table containing data from the
Project file.

You could use the Copy Picture button (on the Standard toolbar) to
capture a GIF image of the Gantt chart (or any other view you like) and
place the image on a slide from your template. See FAQ #16 at
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm for some additional information. You
could also run the Copy Picture Wizard and then cut and paste the image
and table to another PowerPoint slide.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional information
about Microsoft Project

 

[Totte]

Ok, thanks Julie. I'll go for the copy-picture-way instead.
Totte

 

[JulieS]

You're welcome Totte and thanks for the feedback. Let us know if you
have any further questions.

Julie
Project MVP

 

[M. Gawthrop]

Ways that do not work well
1. PowerPoint has a tool in the View, Toolbars, Analysis. This toolbar has
several options for manipulating a Gantt chart into other MS products, but
none captured the entire project. Basically, I found this to import screen
shots. However, you may want to play with it and see if it fits your needs.

2. MS Project has a camera icon which creates a *.gif file – again, it is a
screen shot. But it is a good screen shop, and you can quickly import the gif
into PowerPoint.

What I came up with
This method requires Adobe writer.
1. Format the Gantt chart the way you want it to look in PowerPoint.
1a. If you do not want the right hand timeline, move that off the screen
view. Do this by clicking and dragging the vertical line that separates the
timeline from your left hand columns.
1b. If you want page breaks in certain places, now is the time to set them.
1c. If you typically print in 11 x 17 format, change the page size to 8.5 x
11.
2. Print the MS Project file to Abode PDF.
2a. Check your *.pdf to make sure the columns you want are all on one page.
If not, go back to your MS Project file and adjust the column width as
necessary.
3. In Adobe, go to Document, Extract Pages, Extract pages as separate files,
OK. (Make you set the pages numbers for 1 through the end of your file.)
4. Open PowerPoint. Insert as many new pages as you have extracted pages.
5. For each PowerPoint slide, Insert, Create from file, then browse to your
first extracted page, and click OK. Center, adjust size, and format as
needed.
6. Repeat step five for each page.
7. Save file.