Exporting PowerPoint Objects to Other Programs

You can copy any object in your PowerPoint presentation to another program, either linked or unlinked. For example, perhaps you created a chart using the PowerPoint charting tools for one of your PowerPoint slides, and now you want to use that chart in a Microsoft Word document. To use a PowerPoint object in another program, you do the same basic things that you've learned in this chapter, but you start with PowerPoint. Here are some examples:

• To copy an object from PowerPoint, select it in PowerPoint and copy it to the Clipboard (Ctrl+C). Then switch to the other program and Paste (Ctrl+V).

• To embed (or optionally link) an object from a PowerPoint presentation into another program's document, choose it in PowerPoint and copy it (Ctrl+C). Then, switch to the other program and use Paste Special. (In programs other than Office 2007, the command is usually Edit Paste Special.)

• To embed or link an entire PowerPoint presentation in another program's document, use the Object command in that other program (probably on an Insert tab or menu), and choose your PowerPoint file as the source.

You can also save individual slides as various types of graphics with the Office Save As command, as you learned to do in Chapter 3.