Using PowerPoint with Word

PowerPoint is the presentation software component of Microsoft Office. Presentation software enables you to create slides for use at meetings and seminars (Figure 22). The slides can be printed on paper, output as 35mm slides, saved as a QuickTime movie, or shown directly from the computer.

Figure 22. PowerPoint enables you to create slides for presenting information. This is the outline from Figure 23, with some formatting applied.

You can use PowerPoint with Word to:

Create a PowerPoint presentation from a Word outline.
Include a QuickTime movie created with PowerPoint in a Word document.

Tip

To learn more about using PowerPoint, consult the documentation that came with the program or its onscreen help feature.

To use a Word outline in a PowerPoint presentation

Display the Word outline document you want to use in PowerPoint (Figure 23).

Figure 23. Start with the Word outline that you want to use in PowerPoint.

Choose File > Send To > Microsoft PowerPoint (Figure 24).

Figure 24. The Send To submenu offers options for using the active Word document with other Microsoft Office applications.

The outline is imported into PowerPoint. A new slide is created for each top-level heading (Figure 22).

Tip

I explain how to use Word's Outline feature in Chapter 12.

To insert a PowerPoint QuickTime movie into a Word document

1.	Display the PowerPoint presentation that you want to save as a QuickTime movie (Figure 22).
2.	Choose File > Make Movie (Figure 25). Figure 25. Choose Make Movie from PowerPoint's File menu.
3.	Use the dialog that appears (Figure 26) to name and save the current presentation as a movie. Figure 26. Use this dialog to save the presentation as a movie.
4.	Switch to Word and display the document in which you want to insert the movie.
5.	Choose Insert > Movie (Figure 27). Figure 27. Choose Movie from Word's Insert menu.
6.	The Insert Movie dialog appears (Figure 28). Use it to locate and select the movie you created and then click Choose. Figure 28. Select the movie you want to insert. The movie is inserted into the Word document (Figure 29). Figure 29. The movie is inserted in the document's drawing layer.