Word to Powerpoint

[dglienna]

I have about 1900 pages (with 3-5 lines of text) that I want to transfer to a PP slideshow. I've seen macros to do PP to Word, but not the opposite.

I tried SendTo PP, but I get one line per slide, so that doesn't work. I think I'd need to convert the Word doc to an Outline format (as the sizes relate to slide info it seems).

I've asked around, but nobody seems to know.

It seems like a backwards use for PP, but this is a slideshow of Opera Text Captions that are real-time.

We have the doc, but need to show it LIVE.

[Shuja Ali]

I have never done this before, however I just found something that might be helpful
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ffice.10).aspx

[dglienna]

That's helpful I guess I'd need a macro to convert things first?

[dglienna]

Anybody up to a little challenge? Create 10 lines, separated by pagebreaks in a word doc.

create a macro that will move ALL pages to individual slides, with tone line of text on the bottom of each slide.

[PeejAvery]

Why don't you just print the word document to PDF? Then that PDF can easily be imported into a presentation.

[dglienna]

Never thought of it. Thanks I'll give it a try.

EDIT: Still not working right.

[dglienna]

I guess that isn't going to work. How about starting with a word doc?

[PeejAvery]

Well, using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2004 for Mac, I just went to File -> Open and opened the Word document. It asked if I wanted to use PowerPoint or Word and I clicked PowerPoint. There is was perfectly separated into pages.

[dglienna]

The problem seems to be that the TITLE can only be one line, whereas the operatta text may be a few. I'd think you could use an OUTLINE style 2, but then PP might not work with to title/slide (?)


EDIT: Also, titles show up at the TOP of the slide, vs the bottom...

[RobDog888]

Im back David. I tried this too but as I needed example pages to test it out but I should be able to write something for it tomorrow. Its 1:30am and too tired.

I did some testing the other day for you and I'm quite sure I can do it. It will go from Word and create a new (?) pp file with the subtitles as desired.
There are no images to import too? Or does the pp presentation already exist and we just need to modify it to add subtitles?

[dglienna]

Nope. Nothing but text. The pp doesn't exist, only the doc.
I couldn't get the actual doc, as it's accross the country right now.

This doesn't have to be done for a few weeks he said.

I've posted a sample doc file above, but any will do. The problem is multilines. Titles can't wrap I guess. Hope titles can be omitted also.

Thanks!

[dglienna]

OK. Here's part of the actual text, split into 1 or two lines per page.