Slowly I am working around some of the shortcomings that PowerPoint 2011 for Mac has in comparison to PowerPoint 2010 for Windows, and get to enjoy some of the advantages of the Mac platform. One of them is color management.

Built-in to a Mac is a powerful color management picker: • With a magnifying glass, you can copy the color of any element on screen and add it as a color to your palette. For example, you can take the colors from your corporate logo to create a matching PowerPoint color scheme. In Windows, I had to rely on other applications (Photoshop, Paint) to do this. • Your color palettes are stored across applications, so you set them in PowerPoint, they are available in Photoshop, Keynote, and any other applications you are using.

Dec 01, 2018  My 2011 version does not give me the option 'Select the Print comments and ink markup check box'. I can review the show and hide the comments while in power point, but cannot get a print copy with the comments. From your PowerPoint Online slide show, click File > Print and then choose the kind of sheets you want to print:. Click Open PDF. From the open presentation hover your pointer over the bottom of the presentation and click this image.

PDG is continually astounded at how unhelpful and unintuitive Microsoft programs can be. But thankfully in this case, my not-uncommon gripe has a happy ending.

The unmet need, as framed as a typical google search query: I want to export all of the text from a 20-page PowerPoint file to a plain text file. So that we can translate the text easily or perhaps to proof read the text, or use the content in another medium, like in an email or Word document. Microsoft java virtual machine. Out of thousands of hits, only 1 website solved the problem.

I’ll share with you the solution next. Thinking (wrongly) that surely PowerPoint 2008 for Mac lets us export the text from slides, I hunted for the option.

First discovery: there is no export function. Okay, let’s try Save As no, these options are useless, as the RTF outline text or HTML options do not export any slide text! The “Outline” option requires some unusual structuring that ignores any actual content on the slides! And the “HTML” option actually flattens all the text into a graphic. Because in this SEO era, we surely don’t care about text-based content on our web pages, right?

I found one helpful web page out of thousands that had a solution. It involves running a simple macro snippet, after adding it to the PPT file. I have never used Macros before, but I was able to figure it out in under 5 minutes. But this technique does not work for POWERPOINT:MAC 2008 — because Microsoft removed Macro support in Office 2008. Astounding again. Who does the thinking at the Mac Business Unit there?

UPDATE: Macro support is back in Office 2011. However, luckily, I also have Office 2004 for Mac. If you do too, follow along.

The website with the macro solution is here, at the. Credit to Stephen Rindsberg, who modified code from Kris Lander. Copy the 2nd chunk of code.