Retaining format of Powerpoint text which is copied into Word

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I have a large powerpoint presentation which contains a lot of graphics and a
lot of pages of text. I want to cut and paste the text pages into Word - but
when I do so I lose all the formatting - specifically the colour,
superscript, bold, italic formating.

Is there any way that I can successfully cut and paste text from Powerpoint
int Word whilst retaining the formatting. It could save me hours of
re-formatting!

Thanks in advance

Peter Barrett
 
John

Unfortunately not - the options that are presented are by Paste Special are:

Formatted text (RTF)
Unformatted Text
Picture
Picture (Enhanced Metafile)
HTML Format
Unformatted Unicode Format.

None of them seem to retain the formating - specifically the different
coloured font for differebt lines of text.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Peter Barrett
 
No Not paste special. A button should appear when you paste that gives you
the option yo retain formatting

If you cant see it go to (in Word) tools > options >edit and tick the
appropriate box (some thing like show paste options)
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Peter Barrett said:
I have a large powerpoint presentation which contains a lot of graphics and a
lot of pages of text. I want to cut and paste the text pages into Word - but
when I do so I lose all the formatting - specifically the colour,
superscript, bold, italic formating.

Is there any way that I can successfully cut and paste text from Powerpoint
int Word whilst retaining the formatting. It could save me hours of
re-formatting!
Click to expand...

Bizarre though it may sound, you might want to try:

Save as Web Page from PPT
Open the resulting HTML file in Word
 
John

I see what you mean - I had been using the Paste option from the Edit menu
rather than the paste icon. The word settings were already OK.

I live and learn! Thanks for your advice.

All the best

Peter
 
Steve

Thanks for the suggestion. I have now followed John Wilson's advice and got
the result that I was looking for.

All the best

Peter
 
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