Posted on 03/19/2008 2:10:34 PM PDT by AngrySpud
My very conservative lurker brother needs advice for his classroom science lectures. He wants to put all his Microsoft Word lessons onto PowerPoint. When he copies a hundred pages and tries to paste them onto a suitably long PP file, all pages are crammed onto the first slide. Cutting and pasting small sections will take him hundreds of hours. Any (detailed) help would be appreciated.
He needs to outline his data and then it goes into powerpoint very well.
1. topic
2. topic
a. subtopic
3. topic
a. etc...
Hundreds of pages on a .ppt? Be sure to have lots and lots of RAM because you’re going to need it.
There is no way to do that.
Not being smartypants, just saying.
Hmmm ... interesting. I’ve never tried it before, but under the File menu in Word, you can select Send To\Powerpoint. I’m not sure how PPT breaks that down, but it may be worth a try.
TO ADD;
...he could seperate the info to tell the PP when to start a new page...but that would take just as long as copy/paste each page.
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Better off just creating a hyperlink in Power-point and running the word doc through that. Kinhof a BFAFI solution (Brute Force and F’n Ignorance” but it will work.
Of course, all of our machines are different and we don't know how this machine is set up. However... I have used that option before and it worked quite well.
Please don't just copy and paste. I'm a college student, and I hate when professors do that.
PowerPoint is best used for bulleted outlines and graphics that would otherwise be hard to show. Instead of copying and pasting his Word document files into PowerPoint, he should print them out for his students or make them available on a Web site.
Don’t do that! Don’t use PPT to write books. He’s already got the info in a Word doc. Leave it.
Just put images on the slides to use as talking points.
http://blog.wildform.com/2007/04/death_by_powerpoint_a_comedy_v.html
Oh.
Dude.
That is SO going to my document-retention-for-virtual-print guru.
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