Importing a table created in word

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Doug

I created a table in Word which I want to incorporate into
my presentation. When I copy the table to Powerpoint, the
table becomes all distorted, text is hidden, fonts
changed, and column widths shrunk.

Any suggestions how to do this without recreating the
table in Powerpoint from scratch?
 
What I do is copy the Word document into the same folder as my presentation
before I continue. I create an action button on my slide (can be aby sort
of built-in button or object), right-click on it, select "Action Settings",
click the "Hyperlink to" option and select "Other file". I browse to my
document and select it. make sure the "Highlight click" check box is
selected at the bottom left hand side of the Action Settings dialog box,
then click "OK". When you are in Slide Show mode, it will take you to your
document where you can present the info, clicking the "X" to close out Word
returning you to your presentation.

Keep in mind that this might give you a "virus" error when opening Word.
Disregard and click OK.

Another option is to use the "Run Program" action setting. You would type
something like the following to open your document:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\winword.exe "C:\My
Documents\myfile.doc"

(depends where your Word program file is located, which depends on which
version of Office you have).

Hope this helps!

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
 
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