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Power Point file back to Word file
Thread poster: amat
amat
amat
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Dec 27, 2004

Please advice me if there is an easy way to go back from MS Power Point to Word? I mean without having to go thru the "text boxes" and so on.

Thanks for your cooperation
 
Andrzej Lejman
Andrzej Lejman  Identity Verified
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German to Polish
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ABBYY FineReader Dec 27, 2004

is for sure the way for converting PPT to .doc.

Regards
Andrzej
 
Ben Hickman
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Sweden
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Dutch to English
via PDF Dec 27, 2004

If you only need the text, the most reliable way I've found is to print the PPT to Acrobat Distiller, which results in a PDF. Next open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat and save is as an RTF. You can open the RTF file in Word. This has the unfortunate side effect of placing a hard return at the end of every line, but there are fairly simple ways to remove them, which have been described here many times on ProZ.

If you work with Trados, you can use T-Windows for PowerPoint. Many people who o... See more
If you only need the text, the most reliable way I've found is to print the PPT to Acrobat Distiller, which results in a PDF. Next open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat and save is as an RTF. You can open the RTF file in Word. This has the unfortunate side effect of placing a hard return at the end of every line, but there are fairly simple ways to remove them, which have been described here many times on ProZ.

If you work with Trados, you can use T-Windows for PowerPoint. Many people who own Trados don't know about this handy program. ▲ Collapse
 
Fernando Toledo
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Spain
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German to Spanish
T-Windows is "out of range" Dec 27, 2004

Ben Hickman wrote:

If you work with Trados, you can use T-Windows for PowerPoint. Many people who own Trados don't know about this handy program.


TagEditor works now fine with PPTs.

Rgds
 


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