Converting Files in PowerPoint


 

    The MS Office 97 version of PowerPoint does not support the pasting of the Unicode clipboard format.  Therefore, the conversion utility is not operational with PowerPoint 97. 

   For MS Office 2000 PowerPoint, follow these steps to convert a .ppt file:

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A slide is composed of subgroups.  The above slide has 2 groups denoted by the dotted lines.  In order to use F6, you must be within one of those subgroups.  Simply clicking on the slide itself and pressing F6 will not convert the entire slide.

 The conversion of PowerPoint slides relies totally on the conversion settings in UniGeez-->Options-->ConvUtility.  No auto-detection features are implemented for PowerPoint, other than if certain fonts are present.  Even though PowerPoint can export data as RTF, there is not always a 1-to-1 correspondence between RTF bytes and Unicode bytes.  For example, in the above slide, the bullet in the 2nd group shows up in the RTF format but not in the Unicode format.  In order to implement auto-detection features, every possible difference between the RTF format and the Unicode format for PowerPoint would have to be identified.  Since the slides only represent small portions of data, it seems best to depend upon configurable settings for the conversion process instead of running the chance of improper conversion because an extra byte showed up in the RTF format.  Also, you can copy the text in the slide to Word, convert it there, copy it, and paste it back into the slide.



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