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Re: Single Sourcing: Word to Training PPT and Online Help
Subject:Re: Single Sourcing: Word to Training PPT and Online Help From:Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> To:Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:58:19 +0800 (WST)
Jessica said:
> 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.
I thought AuthorIT would do everything you need, but although it will output a slide presentation, the presentation is designed to run in a browser. It does sound like a very full-featured slide viewer, but it's not actually Powerpoint.
Stuart
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