Can I copy and paste an entire outline to Powerpoint

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I would like to take a 20 page document with pictures and creat a powerpoint
presentation, can I just simply cut and paste? How would I do this.
 
Intromassage said:
I would like to take a 20 page document with pictures and creat a
powerpoint
presentation, can I just simply cut and paste? How would I do this.
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I guess your document is a Word-Document.
If you cut and paste you have to do it piece by piece: the text for one
slide, than for the next. The result may not be very good because the text
may not fit on the slide and you have to adjust everything.
Another way is to send the document to Powerpoint. But than the pictures
will be missing and only text which are formatted as headers will be pasted.

It depends a bit how fast you can type: for me it would be faster to type
the texts again on the slide than to copy and adjust them. I would only
copy/paste the pictures.
 
A Word document will never make a good PowerPoint presentation. In any event,
you need to decide which text goes on which slides. You can take your Word
document and turn it into an "outline." Make the text that you want to be
slide titles and set it to the Heading1 style. Then edit like crazy and leave
the text you want on the body of the slide as Normal style. Alternatively,
put slide title text at the left margin and body slide text tabbed 1 tab in.
Then choose File> Open, and choose All Outlines from the Files of Type
drop-down list. You'll get a presentation with the text on each slide as you
specified. You'll have to copy and paste the images.

But again, I want to emphasize that a 20-page Word document won't make an
effective presentation. They're 2 different types of media. Imagine taking
your 20-page document and putting on video and showing it as a movie!

Ellen Finkelstein
 
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