[Peter T. Daniels]

There's _one_ advantage: I can rearrange slides and the text goes
with. That's better than having the two programs open and dealing with
both slides and Outline View.

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No "transitions" or "animations," though.

On Jan 22, 10:19*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
My experience with PPT, as an "expert" Word user, have been uniformly
frustrating, and not just in the Notes pane. I gather that PPT 2007 has some
of the features I miss, but I've been using 2003 because so far most of the
presentations I've made have been for a client still using Office 2003. In
your situation, I'd be inclined to compose the text in Word and paste it
into PPT at the very least (if there's a lot of it).

I'm hoping that someday I'll become more than a total novice PPT user, but I
suspect that most PPT experts know more about Word (because everybody uses
it) than I do about PPT!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ...
I've made some slides and am typing the talk in the Notes frame for
each slide as I make them. Whether I'll keep them there for the final
product remains to be seen.

It's really annoying that the simplest word processing acts (like
double-clicking to select a word) don't work. *And there aren't any
templates to put my keyboard shortcuts in.

On Jan 21, 2:48 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:



The one advantage I can see of the Notes is that you will see only the
notes
for the slide you are currently showing. Alternatively, you can print out
a
notes page that has a thumbnail of your slide along with the speaker notes
and use that as hard copy.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
...

I'm giving a lecture next month, only my third with a PowerPoint
presentation -- and only the first that'll have an audience of more
than about 10, so I'll be writing it out fully in advance. And with
the new Windows 7 laptop (yay!), I can even take advantage of the dual-
monitor thing and have the slide show on the projector and a working
view on the computer.

Does anyone know of arguments for or against using the Notes function
in PowerPoint to contain my entire text, vs. simply writing it in a
word processor the usual way and printing it out?

(I am assuming that I can write it in Word and paste it into PP's
Notes frame slide by slide.)--