[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

Indeed, if changing the layout deleted the note, that would be a problem!

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I got the impression he didn't delete the slide but just changed the
layout. When I do that, though, I don't lose any content.

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

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Hmm, deleting a slide would of course get rid of the notes for that slide
as well (since they are stored together)... I don't see why that would be
a surprise? Or am I missing something?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Yikes. I guess I'm lucky that the few presentations I've had to prepare
have been based on text given to me by someone else, not something I was
composing from scratch.

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

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
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I just discovered another drawback. I picked the wrong one of the
silly preset formats and deleted the slide -- and the notes went with
it. (I'd saved all but the last paragraph, of course. None of that "I
didn't save my work for 17 hours and Word crashed can I get my file
back?" stuff.)

On Jan 22, 11:51 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I see you compose the same way I do, as a single continuous thread.
This can
make editing very tough because any rearrangement of content breaks
transitions that have been carefully designed and requires a lot of
rewriting. I find that people who take a more methodical approach can
often
see a better (or at least more organized) way of presenting content
than I
do, but I think there's a lot to be said for logical development where
each
idea flows out of the previous one. Given this workflow, though, I
think you
have no choice but to use PPT for your speaker notes.

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

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
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At the risk of turning this thread into a composition class, I find I
don't do well by starting with an outline. If I just wait around,
eventually the opening sentence comes to me and then the rest of it
all follows, point from point -- and I can often then go back and
insert headings and subheadings. For this talk I have a very disparate
group of topics and making the slides for each thing I want to mention
leads me to know what is to be said about each one -- and then I can
put them into a better order. This is an hour-long Plenary Address,
which translates to 45-50 min. of talking, which translates to as much
as 6000 words.

On Jan 22, 11:19 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:



I've never tried the technique of creating on outline in Word and
then
importing it into PPT to create slides, and that's not the issue
you're
dealing with, anyway, so it's irrelevant, but it's one feature to
remember.

As for the Notes, if are strictly speaker notes (just for your own
use,
not
for handouts), the formatting is not critical provided they convey
the
mental jogs you need to explicate the slide content. The speaker
notes
aren't really intended to be any more formal than the 3x5 cards you
might
have had before PPT existed.

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

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
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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.

--
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!

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

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
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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.

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

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
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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.)----