Powerpoint to Word? and be able to edit?
March 15th, 2010Just a quick question for you.....
I have a Powerpoint 2000 show from a user, who wants to take the slides into a Word 2000 document. They also want to be able to edit the information once it's in the Word document.
What I did:
To pull a Powerpoint show into a Word doc, I used File>Send to>MS Word (with a link).
When I switch to Word, the slides are there and can be edited. I notice that when I check for 'Links' (Edit>Links), it's greyed out - meaning no links to a file.
Does this mean that the slides are editable, but not necessarily physically linked back to the Powerpoint file?
Many thanks guys!
Lori
Only the slides will be linked to the PowerPoint file. If you update any of the textual content of the Word file nothing in the PowerPoint presentation will change.
Can you run through the process again and give me some more details on what you are doing? I'm looking for things like what type of Send to Word you are doing (Slides,notes, outline, etc.) It would also help to know exactly what is happening when you edit the slides. Does it bring up PowerPoint?
Thanks so much for your input.
Sorry I didn't make myself clear in the first message.
When I use the 'Send To' option, I selected 'Blank lines below slides' simply because the resulting Word document would contain the actual slide and only blank lines that can be easily deleted. Each slide would be on a separate page in Word and, as an object, could be resized.
When I double click on the object slide in Word, I stay in Word but am in edit mode so I can change the text boxes, etc.
This sort of says to me that there really isn't a link back to the original Powerpoint doc - which is what I would prefer. The reason? I am so sure that the end user will copy it or mail it somewhere and lose the original file in the process. This seems to be the safest method of ensuring the integrity of the data, as well as being able to modify it.
So - I wondered too then, when I looked at Edit>Links and saw there was nothing, if that was more evidence that there is no actual link back to the Powerpoint file.
Thank you for staying to the end of my story !!
Kind regards,
Lori
If you aren't wanting the link, what you are doing is correct. However, if you want the changes to show in the PowerPoint slides (instead of just the Word graphics), you will need to click the paste link option at the bottom of the send to word window.
One other note: If you are working on the Word file and the original PowerPoint file is not on the same system (in other words if someone sent you the Word file), you would also get the results you are seeing. This is because Word would not be able to find the original file to establish the link. However, I would guess that in this case you would get an error message.
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