Transfer Information Between PowerPoint and Other Applications

Topic at a glance

You need to prepare slides to accompany a report. Or, perhaps you need to prepare a report to accompany a presentation. You can accomplish these tasks easily by exchanging outlines between PowerPoint and Microsoft Word.

In addition to Word documents, PowerPoint also reads many other file formats, including Microsoft Write, Harvard Graphics 2.3 and 3.0, Freelance Graphics for MS-DOS®, Freelance Graphics 1.0-2.1 for Windows, Rich Text Format, and plain text.