Reinstate export handouts to Microsoft Word
In older versions of PPT (prior to Windows 10, PPT2013 and prior) the function Export Handouts to Microsoft Word worked beautifully. Not so much since these latest upgrades. PPT sends an error message that simply isn't fix-able. "PPT cannot write to Word". The 'HELP' isn't helpful (technicians do not understand the issue and have no reasonable suggestions to overcome it). "Community" offers many suggestions, none of which overcome this. Very frustrating to lose this capability.
Pam Proctor
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Francisco Dias
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Não tem a aba criar folhetos no meu powerpoint. Não consigo enviar do powerpoint para o word
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Glenda
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Totally agree with the comment by Pam Proctor. This is an extremely valuable feature that no longer seems to be working properly.
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Anonymous
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What Dan Warfield says...productivity is hurting, not to mention human frustration...FIX please
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Dan Warfield
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This is a huge problem for anyone needing to provide handouts to students or meeting attendees.
It is a memory management bug in the export to handouts function.
There is a support page at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/edit-or-print-powerpoint-handouts-in-word-09256fc0-3b3e-4a43-9c83-3cfde594fed4 that provides some lame workarounds that can be used but these can take hours of manual work vs. the minutes of automated work that was required before this broke.
This is a memory management bug in the export to handouts function.
This has been unfixed for a few years now. I would be happy to work with someone in Microsoft on recreating and documenting this bug so it can be sent to the right team backlog as a high priority.
This is a memory management bug in the export to handouts function.
Please fix it.
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Anonymous
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The solutions to restart windows or export one file many times are not practical when you're trying to get work done.
There should just be an option to export the notes without the slides. Simple text.
Please fix!
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Anonymous
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One more voice -- please fix this.
It's very poor form for a company with huge resources not to address a problem that has occurred with a feature which is in your menu
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Anonymous
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I agree whole heartedly with this assessment. This feature used to work,but with newer versions of PPT it does not work anymore. It seems like a cache is filling somewhere, but I don't know how to clear it - the function works for awhile, and then it doesn't. We have "filled" 4 office computers, now the feature doesn't work on any of them.
None of the posted suggestions work.
This is very frustrating.
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JRShell
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As stated by so many before: 1. The ability to export more than 5 slides as Handouts without it crashing. 2) The ability to export Handouts without comments. 3) The ability to size the images when exporting. Even when I select 1 slide per page landscape, it exports at 4.99" wide at the largest.
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Daniel Zurwerra
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The export function to MS Word is completely unusable. The slides are not scaled correctly and cover the lines. The master layout is ignored. It seems that Powerpoint and Word come from two completely different companies.
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Manuela
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L'idée c'est de pouvoir prendre du texte de Powerpoint pour le mettre et l'exploiter dans Word et non d'exporter des diapositives dans Word. Je n'en vois pas l'intérêt.
Avez-vous une solution pour exporter juste le texte sans la diapositive complète ?Merci de votre réponse.
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Ian Buckley
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This is not hard. Please manage memory better by using disk if necessary but to offer the solution of breaking large ppts down in to smaller chunks seems backward. If that is absolutely necessary - I'm sure your programmers can take care of this in the background for us. Please put some work in and fix this major shortcoming
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Debbie Smith
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I need the powerpoint slides to come over as images and NOT linked to the original file.
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Warren
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Works so poorly, it's almost impossible to complete an exporting task of more than 5 slides. Needs fixing ASAP. Seeing all the comments below makes me very pessimistic about it :/
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Anonymous
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I have this problem. This bug needs fixing. It is more than three years since this was posted, so I guess nobody at MSFT cares. But I'll leave a note just in case.
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Jordan
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Never works, either does none or some pages and then comes up with the message 'PowerPoint could not write to word' well great that's not very helpful now is it. Everything is up to date etc so i don't know whats going on!
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Bob
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Why can I not export handouts of the slides only? I want to export as 2 slides per page with no notes but am unable to do this even though you can print this option
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Naomi
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When you convert into Word you cannot work in the document in Word. This there a way around this.
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David Carpenter
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I agree with Pam no help at all I plan to drop 365
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Moss
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Once the powerpoint slides via create handouts appears in word, how do you remove slide borders, and make slides appear as text?
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Jason Owens
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I don't see why PowerPoint doesn't offer the simplest of features: The ability to print 3 slides on a page with the notes (that show up below each slide on the screen--or to the right in .ppt presenter mode) shoiwng up below or next to them.
Having me go through Word to make this happen is just another hoop to jump through--and a flaming one at that: I've gotten burned because each slide shows up with the notes fine but with the left 60% of the slide perfect and the right 40% blank.