PowerPoint Simple way to email single slide or a couple slides in PPT format
In my company (50k employees) we often have to email single slides or maybe a couple slides as we collaborate on the creation of large presentations. Today, the process is a bit tedious, in that we have to create a new PPT, copy/paste the slide(s) we want to send, retain the formatting, save the file, create a new email, attach the 'temp' file, and send it.
Ideally, you could CTL+Select the slides you want to send (in slide sorter mode or from the sidebar), then right-click on the slide(s) and select "send via email". That would be very helpful!
Josh Peterson
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EricE
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Code to save every slide as an individual powerpoint file: http://skp.mvps.org/ppt00036.htm#2
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Aran Gurukulam
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GOOD to have 'Send to a PPT' option on right click menu, and which will open, and add the slides to the referd ppt.
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Anhvi Dao
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It's sad that we have to purchase Thinkcell just to do this. It's worth the $$, but it also means that now people are asking why we don't scrap Excel charts for Thinkcell.
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Anonymous
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Fully agree. This is one of the only things left that Thinkcell does really seamlessly that PowerPoint has failed to incorporate natively. Very simple, yet helpful.
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Karthik
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I fully subscribe to this point. Day in a day out I deal with Powerpoint wherein different people want different sets of data. Though a Copy-Paste functionality is available, this lets us copy the slide in the mail body rather than send as an attachment. The current process is really painful wherein I need to open a new slide deck and paste it there. If this feature of sending 1 slide or a couple of slides as an attachment is provided, it saves a lat of time and energy.
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Ray Lyles
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A PowerPoint add-in called Think-Cell lets you do this, but it's subscription. Though about GBP100 a year, it saves time and money by letting you create charts faster, especially waterfall charts.
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Joe S.
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Also from slide sorter, after selecting a subset of slides, I want to right-click >> Create New Presentation and right-click >> Share via Email.
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Echo Swinford
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To extend this idea, I would like to be able to send one slide from a presentation to an email ... as a PPTX, not as a picture.
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Nolan Haims
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I would add the ability to drag images out from slidesorter (or lefthand thumbnails) to the desktop and have the choice via modifier key to save as a new presentation or save a images.
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Uwe Echternacht
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I'd like to have a feature where
a) I can select one or several slides in the thumb nail column (on the left hand side of the Powerpoint workspace, where the mini version of all slides are shown) and then
b) with a right mouse button click, the context menu offers to forward them in an email
then
c) if not more than let’s say 5 slides are selected, a dialog asks "send as attachment or as inline graphics” | otherwise attachment is default
then
d) if selection is attachment - a dialog opens asking for filename and filetype (ppt / pdf/ etc.) then
e) open the email client, and proceed as normal. -
Uwe Echternacht
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I'd like to have a feature where
a) I can select one or several slides in the thumb nail column (on the left hand side of the Powerpoint workspace, where the mini version of all slides are shown) and then
b) with a right mouse button click, the context menu offers to extract them into new presentation. Than
c) a dialog asks "open new presentation or save as new file" and then
d) either open a new instance of Powerpoint with the extracted slides or open the save_as dialog.That would save me a lot of time because I could maintain a master slide deck and extract audience specific sub sets of slides and still remain a sort of slide version control.
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Anonymous
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there is an add-on called think cell which allows you to do just that. I think your company needs a license for it though. but could be intermediate step as ppt rolls this out. I agree it is a pain at the moment.
