PowerPoint, WORD, and Macros

So I've read all about how to format a WORD document with Headings so that it comes out right in powerpoint slides.

However, I have a 91 page document already done in it's own format and needs to translate each page onto a slide in powerpoint. Send to and all those things suggested from importing word to powerpoint don't work.

So I figure writing a macro would work. Problem is, I don't know where to begin with it. I'm thinking page breaks but I'm clueless.

Is there already a macro out there or an easy way of doing this I can't be the first one.

Help!

-Tiffany

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PowerPoint, WORD, and Macros

Gandalf_The_White
Here's some additional info from our support engineer that might be helpful. This was already in the support queue so I figured more info couldn't hurt. :-)

You might consider creating an application to read a word document by objects and then create the Powerpoint presentation by slide.

You can also convert a Word doc to a Powerpoint presentation from Send To as follows.

1. Close PowerPoint and get back to the Word document. Select the first line that contains the words Slide 1. Choose the Heading 1 option from the Styles drop down menu on Word's Formatting toolbar (or via the Format/Styles menu). Similarly, select the remaining three lines and choose the Heading 2 style from Styles. Save your Word document and choose File/Send To/Microsoft PowerPoint. If you followed all the steps correctly, you'll find that PowerPoint has created a single slide presentation with one title and three bullets in the text area—exactly like a conventional presentation!
You can create multiple titles and bullets in Word using the Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles, alternatively, for all your content. This in turn will translate into multiple slides within a PowerPoint presentation.

2. Visit the following URLs to get more info:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=KB;en-us;q198212 : PPT2000: Importing Word for Windows Document into PowerPoint

-brenda (ISV Buddy Team)
eXseraph

Hi,

You can record macros very easily in Office. Whether this will be useful to you depends completely on the formatting you need to do with the document in order to prepare it for powerpoint. For example if you need to change each page differently then a macro isn't going to help, but if you can apply the same change to all or some of the pages then a macro will do the job.

Recording a macro is real easy. You might need to refine the macro a bit after recording to get it to do exactly what you want, but that comes later. If you create a new document and from the menu select Tools->Macro->Record New Macro this will start the recording process, everything you do in the document, all the text you type, all the toolbar presses, and everything is recorded. You can then play this back using Tools->Macro->Macros...

Try some examples just to get used to it.

If you can record how to format one page then you can run the same formatting macro on another page. Again you might need to alter the macro slightly to get it to run on different pages but at least you have the main body of your formatting code, at which point you can post again.

Hopefully that will help get you started.
PowerPoint, WORD, and Macros

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