Working between Office applications

[CJinMadison]

Good morning, all:

I am trying to craft some code that will take an existing MS PowerPoint presentation, and do the following:

Step 1: Save this PowerPoint presentation as a handout... which is an MS Word document.

Step 2: Take that MS Word document, and do a bunch of formatting to it.

So far, I have the code for Step 2. But, it is simply written to be run once the MS Word document has been created, and is open.

I am looking for guidance in crafting the code for Step 1.

I would (ultimately) like a one-button solution that will... take the PowerPoint file, save it as the Word file, and then do all that formatting/modification to it. And, be done.

Any assistance, guidance, advice on how to do that?

I appreciate any help.

CJinMadison

 

[SkipVought]

hi,

How dymanic is your powerpoint/word documents, assuming that his is a periodic exersize and not a one time thing?

Skip,

_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
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[zelgar]

Step 1 is already included in Powerpoint at least in the '07 version. If you hit the Office Button in the upper left corner, you'll get a list of commands. One of them is Publish which gives you the option to Create Houndouts in Microsoft Word. There's around 5 options on the layout of the slides depending on if you want notes/blank lines to the right of slides/below slides.