PowerPoint Notes

I'm really trying to give Microsoft a suggestion, but I got redirected to
this user group. Here's hoping MS reads their user groups!

I think we should be able to print just the PPT notes, (w/out slides) or
export the notes to Word (w/o slides, and preferably, w/o blank pages.)

Hi Mary,

Did u try sending a mail to

Thanks a lot,
Hari
India

"Mary in Houston" Mary in wrote in
message ...
I'm really trying to give Microsoft a suggestion, but I got redirected to
this user group. Here's hoping MS reads their user groups!

I think we should be able to print just the PPT notes, (w/out slides) or
export the notes to Word (w/o slides, and preferably, w/o blank pages.)

Thanks! I'll do it now. (If anyone else thinks the Notes feature could be
improved this way, please join me in sending emails to microsoft!)

Mary

"Hari Prasadh" wrote:

Hi Mary,

Did u try sending a mail to

Thanks a lot,
Hari
India

"Mary in Houston" Mary in wrote in
message ...
I'm really trying to give Microsoft a suggestion, but I got redirected to
this user group. Here's hoping MS reads their user groups!

I think we should be able to print just the PPT notes, (w/out slides) or
export the notes to Word (w/o slides, and preferably, w/o blank pages.)

Mary;
I just delete the slide placeholder from the notes master and then resize
the Notes placeholder. I also change my page size to legal if I have LOTS of
notes on a particular slide.

However, the export to Word is a nice idea, although I'm not sure how useful
to most users. I, for one create my notes and thoughts in PP, but most other
users I know write their ideas and notes in Word and then cut & paste (ugh)
or use the import tool to bring their ideas from Word to PP.

Dan Knight
Knight Information Services
Calgary, AB. Canada

"Mary in Houston" wrote:

I'm really trying to give Microsoft a suggestion, but I got redirected to
this user group. Here's hoping MS reads their user groups!

I think we should be able to print just the PPT notes, (w/out slides) or
export the notes to Word (w/o slides, and preferably, w/o blank pages.)

In article , Hari Prasadh wrote:
Hi Mary,

Did u try sending a mail to

Hari,

I've been told that they no longer monitor that email address.

Posting as a suggestion via the web view of this newsgroup seems to be the
preferred way to do this now (so Mary, you're home free)

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Steve (from Pasadena. Yes, THAT Pasadena) Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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In article , Mary in
Houston wrote:
Thanks! I'll do it now. (If anyone else thinks the Notes feature could be
improved this way, please join me in sending emails to microsoft!)

In the meanwhile, this should help:

Export the notes text of a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00481.htm

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Steve (from Pasadena) Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Thanks for your suggestion.

The reason I posted my question was that I occasionally run across an old
presentation I wrote using PPT notes, or I need to fill in for someone who
uses notes. I've stopped using the notes pages myself because I've found
that while having a hard-copy document with notes is helpful during lectures,
using a page for each slide is too bulky for me. However, your suggestion
will work fine for once-in-a-while.

I usually go in the other direction now (from PPT to Word instead of from
Word to PPT), because I'm in a situation of using some pre-prepared slides
and wanting to make my own notes on some of them. Also, I make the PPT's
available to my students and don't want to have 2 versions to edit (one w/o
notes and one with.)

So what I do now to make notes is to export the slides into Word using
File/Save As/ Outline/RTF. The slide titles come across as Heading 1, the
main points as Heading 2, the minor points as Heading 3. (Any contents of
Notes pages are not saved to the RTF document, only the slide contents.
Drawings and other extras are also not saved, which is fine for my purposes.)
It is easy to reformat each level by clicking on one of the Heading 1's, for
example, then Format / Styles and Formatting, and choosing Select All to
format the selected type. Then I add my notes as body text in between the
slides. Of course, it's a back-and-forth process since sometimes as you
write the notes you realize the PPT's need to be revised. But it's no worse
than using the PPT notes pages, and there are more print and format options
for the RTF document.

When I edit the PPT's, sometimes I just correct my lecture notes document
hardcopy in pencil instead of re-doing it. (very retro!)

Mary

"Dan Knight" wrote:

Mary;
I just delete the slide placeholder from the notes master and then resize
the Notes placeholder. I also change my page size to legal if I have LOTS of
notes on a particular slide.

However, the export to Word is a nice idea, although I'm not sure how useful
to most users. I, for one create my notes and thoughts in PP, but most other
users I know write their ideas and notes in Word and then cut & paste (ugh)
or use the import tool to bring their ideas from Word to PP.

Dan Knight
Knight Information Services
Calgary, AB. Canada

Wow, Steve! I can see there is a whole world of PowerPoint I never knew
about. Great website. I dipped my toes into the water a bit with your code,
but I'm going to have to talk to my system administrators about running
macros in PPT. There seems to be some hitch -- some needed features to save
the code as a ppa seem to be disabled.

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

In article , Mary in
Houston wrote:
Thanks! I'll do it now. (If anyone else thinks the Notes feature could be
improved this way, please join me in sending emails to microsoft!)

In the meanwhile, this should help:

Export the notes text of a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00481.htm

-----------------------------------------
Steve (from Pasadena) Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================

In article , Mary in Houston
wrote:
Wow, Steve! I can see there is a whole world of PowerPoint I never knew
about. Great website. I dipped my toes into the water a bit with your code,
but I'm going to have to talk to my system administrators about running
macros in PPT. There seems to be some hitch -- some needed features to save
the code as a ppa seem to be disabled.

You don't really need to save as PPA just to run code from within PPT on an
occasional basis. If your security level is set to High or whatever the next
level up is ... Total Annihilation or something ... then macros won't run when you
reopen a presentation containing them and you'll get no prompt from PPT to verify
that this is what you want.

Try setting macro security to Medium.


"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

In article , Mary in
Houston wrote:
Thanks! I'll do it now. (If anyone else thinks the Notes feature could be
improved this way, please join me in sending emails to microsoft!)

In the meanwhile, this should help:

Export the notes text of a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00481.htm

-----------------------------------------
Steve (from Pasadena) Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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