Sending Presentations to Microsoft Word

You can send your presentation to Microsoft Word directly from PowerPoint. When you send your presentation, you can choose from a number of different options, including sending just your slides, your slides with notes, or an outline of the presentation.

To send a presentation to Microsoft Word:

1. Click the File menu, point to Send To and select Microsoft Office Word...
2. In the Send To Microsoft Office Word dialog box, select an option for pasting the presentation in Microsoft Word.
3. Click OK.
4. Microsoft Word will automatically launch and a new document will be created containing the content from your presentation.

By default, the presentation will be pasted into the new Word document. If you make changes to the presentation, they will not be reflected in the Word document. Click the Paste link option in the Send To Microsoft Office Word dialog box to paste the presentation as a linked item. When you select this option, the Word document can be updated to reflect changes you make to the presentation in PowerPoint. To update the document, right-click a slide in the document and select Update Link from the context menu.

When you send your presentation to Microsoft Word as an outline, only the text you added to placeholders is part of the outline. If you have added text using the Text Box tool, it is not part of the outline and will not be imported to Word.