RE: Single Sourcing: Word to Training PPT and Online Help

["Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>]

There's nothing that I know of that will output directly to PowerPoint.
Word/rtf and online help, yes, but not PowerPoint directly.  I suspect
you'd have to do some kind of Word to ppt export, and then tweak the
slides somewhat.  I'd love to be pleasantly surprised about this.

You could do it with Help & Manual, designating the slide for a topic as
an alternate version of the text for the slide build.  But then you'd
have to take the output (rtf or html) and getting it into PowerPoint
through some kind of import. H & M can do the other two outputs just
fine.


Is the text of the ppt really the same as the text of the online help
for a topic?  If so, it will make for rather wordy slides.  Is there an
instructional designer involved in all this, deciding the order of
topics and level of coverage for the training as opposed to the manual
and online help?

-  Jessica


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