Powerpoint handouts should be possible to print with text

[UrbanK]

Quite often we, at my work, need to print out a manuscript for a
presentation. They normally contain a lot more than the slides themselves.

The best solution for us would be a possibility to export the slides to a
word document that looks pretty much like the 3-slide handout. With the
slides as pictures that we can write around, i.e. both above and below as
well as beside, our scripts can easily be finished - and when it is a product
feature, the files could be more sound. Today, we need to copy one slide at
the time from .ppt to .doc, fix the text positioning, position the picture
and start to write. For a two day seminar, that takes a few hours, the Word
file becomes enormous and easily corrupted.

Another, more restricting, alternative is that the notes (from ppt) are
printed beside and below the slide on a handout alternative directly in
Powerpoint.

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[Steve Rindsberg]

In article <148C6DBF-3DC5-415C-B56C-13363BC50FA4@microsoft.com>, UrbanK wrote:
> Quite often we, at my work, need to print out a manuscript for a
> presentation. They normally contain a lot more than the slides themselves.
>
> The best solution for us would be a possibility to export the slides to a
> word document that looks pretty much like the 3-slide handout.

PowerPoint's Send To Word feature will do precisely this and gives you more options than
the normal handouts feature does.

In 2003, File | Send To | Microsoft Office Word

In 2007, Office Button | Publish | Create Handouts in MS Word

With the
> slides as pictures that we can write around, i.e. both above and below as
> well as beside, our scripts can easily be finished - and when it is a product
> feature, the files could be more sound. Today, we need to copy one slide at
> the time from .ppt to .doc, fix the text positioning, position the picture
> and start to write. For a two day seminar, that takes a few hours, the Word
> file becomes enormous and easily corrupted.
>
> Another, more restricting, alternative is that the notes (from ppt) are
> printed beside and below the slide on a handout alternative directly in
> Powerpoint.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=148c6dbf-3dc5-415c-
b56c-13363bc50fa4&dg=microsoft.public.office.misc