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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / January 2005PowerPoint 2004 to Word copy-paste inaccuracies
Am copying graphics drawn using PowerPoint 2004 and then do a "Paste Special" as "Picture" into Word X, 2003 (PC), or 98. However, graphics drawn with free-form line drawing or round cornered rectangles do not copy well. The lines appear far thicker in Word X or Word 2003 (PC) than they are in the original PowerPoint. When I perform the same operation with the exact same file in PowerPoint X, 2003, or 98, everything is cool. So, there is something that is not converting the graphics in a way that is compatible to non-Word 2004 documents. (In Word 2004, everything appears OK.) Since there is no compatibility function like Word has, I am stymied. Any ideas? Thanks. P.S. The distortion is paticularly prevalent when the line "weight" exceeds 1, but even present and .5 Hi Jim, Well, I tried to duplicate the scenario, but when I tried the pasted objects looked the same in Word as they did in PowerPoint. I used paste, paste special as picture, and also via the scrapbook both ways. If you look at the formatting (control-click > format object) do you see the same line thickness in the dialog box using both Word and PowerPoint? I can suggest a work-around. Control-click on the object then save it as a picture. Then insert the picture into the Word document (Insert>Picture>FromFile). -Jim  SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVP FAQ <http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;mvpfaqs> > Am copying graphics drawn using PowerPoint 2004 and then do a "Paste > Special" as "Picture" into Word X, 2003 (PC), or 98. However, graphics [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > P.S. The distortion is paticularly prevalent when the line "weight" > exceeds 1, but even present and .5 Hi Jim, Thanks for the work-around. When you examined the line thickness, did you copy and paste from PowerPoint 2004 into Word X or Word 2003? That is when the problem occurs. Have posted a Word file at http:www.jamesodell.com/paste-problem.doc where the upper drawing is from PowerPoint 2004 and the lower from PowerPoint X. From Word 2004, both look the same; from Word X or Word 2003, the upper on looks bad. Thanks again, Jim Hi, I pasted from PPT 2004 into Word 2004. But I see what you mean when you open the document in Word X. Make sure that you have installed the Office updates for Word 2003. That will like fix the trouble with Word 2003 (Windows). -Jim Gordon Mac MVP All responses should be made to this newsgroup within the same thread. Thanks. About Microsoft MVPs: http://www.mvps.org/ Before posting a "new" topic please be sure to search Google Groups to see if your question has already been answered. ---------- > Hi Jim, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thanks again, > Jim Have installed all the updates to Word 2003, but the paste-problem.doc still appears as it does under Word X--the lines are far to thick. How does one report such "features" to Microsoft? Thanks again. -Jim Odell Hi Jim, In this case it's hard to know for sure whether it's a problem with the Mac version or the Windows version. Because it displays OK in Office 2004 but not 2003 I lean toward the notion that this problem is with Word for Windows. To report bugs or to suggest new features for Word (Mac or Windows) use this URL: http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp Report on only one thing in particular at a time, so that the entries can be added to their tracking database. -Jim SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVP FAQ <http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;mvpfaqs> > Have installed all the updates to Word 2003, but the paste-problem.doc > still appears as it does under Word X--the lines are far to thick. > How does one report such "features" to Microsoft? > Thanks again. > > -Jim Odell > Hi Jim, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Report on only one thing in particular at a time, so that the entries > can be added to their tracking database. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > -Jim Odell Thanks Jim. The "problem" also appears in Word X and Word 98. |
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