3 Methods to Convert PowerPoint Mac to Word

Similar with saving PowerPoint as Word in Windows, using Microsoft Office for Mac, you can also convert a PowerPoint document to a Word file if you need.

Method 1: Save PowerPoint Outline in Word (Microsoft Office 2011/2008/2004 for Mac)
1. Open the PowerPoint document that you want to convert to a Word document.
2. On the File menu, click Save As.

3. Select Outline/Rich Text Format (.rtf) from the Format list.

Note
The resulting document will have no graphic content and the only text retained will be that from Title, Subtitle and Content placeholders.Text in shapes or regular text boxes will not be included.


Method 2: Send to Word(Microsoft Office 2008/2004 for Mac)
Unlike Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, in Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011, there isn't any "Send To" Button. The mechanism in the Mac version was so limited and the result so worthless that it was dropped from the menu in PPT 2011.

Convert Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 & 2004 for Mac to Word:
1. Open the PowerPoint document that you want to convert to a Word document.
2. On the File menu, click Send To.

3. Microsoft Word button will appear to the right of the menu. Choose it.
4. A new Word document will appear on the screen. Review the Word document to make sure the information transfer from the presentation is correct. Make edits to the Word document if desired.
5. Click Word's File menu and select Save to save the file as a Word document.

Note

• In PowerPoint 2008, only the slide titles will be converted over to Word in outline form.
• In PowerPoint 2004, the entire text content of each slide is converted over to Word, but no graphics are included.

Method 3: Export all Text in PowerPoint Slide including Text in Text Box (Microsoft Office 2011/2008/2004 for Mac)
If you wanna a Word document finally with all text from original PowerPoint document in Mac version, save it as PDF file first, and then, save PDF as text as the last step.

1. Open the PowerPoint document that you want to convert to a Word document.
2. On the File menu, click Save As.

 3. Select PDF in the Format list.

4. Save PDF as Text.

Convert PowerPoint to Word in Windows Microsoft Office:

• 3 Methods to Convert PowerPoint to Word

How to Add Audio Files into PowerPoint for Mac 2011 and Set as Background Music

PowerPoint users like adding function in Microsoft PowerPoint, such as add music into powerpoint. Besides Microsoft PowerPoint for windows, more and more users are using it on Mac. In PowerPoint for Mac 2011, how can we insert music freely?

Audio Formats Supported
PowerPoint for Mac supports more audio file types than PowerPoint 2010 for Windows, which are .aiff, .mid or .midi, .wav, .au, .mp3 and .wma. More details about file types supported by PowerPoint for Mac 2011.

Insert audio files into Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011
You can also find detailed steps in how to add audio into PowerPoint 2010, PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2003.

• Step 1: Open powerpoint document you want to add audio files, click Insert - Audio, choose the path of audio.



• Step 2: After adding audio track successfully, click on Audio Icon. In Format Audio tab, under Start, select the playing way, such as Automatically, On Click and Play Across Slides.



• Step 3: If you choose Play Across Slides, click on the Animations tab, then Recorder button. Choose the audio file you want to change. Under Media Options, you can change the slides number to any you want.




If you want to set the audio file as the background music, just set the number greater than the number of your whole slide show.

That's all about how to add audio music into PowerPoint for Mac 2011. You would set it as you want by following the steps above. Good Luck!

Related Articles:

• Add Music in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
• Insert, Play, and Modify Sounds in PowerPoint 2007
• Add Music in Microsoft PowerPoint 2003

2 Free and Easy Methods of Adding Youtube Videos into PowerPoint

I find that so many people ask similar questions about adding youtube videos into powerpoint on Yahoo Answer these days. Actually, it's not as complex as people always think to embed videos from youtube into presentations. But we still need to follow the guide below step by step. There are actually many details we need to notice.

Use Embed Code (Online)

If you will show this powerpoint presentation with networking, the easiest way is adding youtube video into powerpoint with embed code which Youtube shows.

• Step 1: Copy the embed code under video on youtube webpage: Share - Embed - Use old embed code.

• Step 2: Back to the slide in your powerpoint presentation, and under Video, select Video from Web Site, then copy the embed code and paste it in the blank in dialogue box. At last, the youtube video will be shown in powerpoint and be played as long as your computer is connected with internet.

In this method, your shown will depend on internet. But if you are not limited, it's really an easy way to embed youtube video quickly.

Download Youtube Video and Insert (Offline)

It seems that many students or teachers need to make a speach in the rooms without internet or youtube. So, this is the way for you to add youtube videos into slideshow. There are 3 steps:

• Step 1: Download Youtube video

First, we need to download videos from Youtube. After uploading, videos always be saved in .flv on Youtube website. So, this free flv downloader works now.

Moyea FLV Downloader is a freeware to download, manage, play back and convert FLV (Flash video) from all video sharing sites at great speed, such as YouTube, Yahoo, Google, MySpace, iFilm, Dailymotion, Metacafe, etc.

• Step 2: Convert .flv video to the formats powerpoint allows. 

Actually, flv isn't supported by Microsoft PowerPoint. So, converting flv is the most important step during the whole process. .swf, .asf, .avi, .mpg or .mpeg, .wmv are widely used video formats in powerpoint. And FREE FLV to Video Converter will help us to finish this step perfectly.

• Step 3: Insert video into powerpoint

On the Insert menu, point to Video, and then click Video from File. Click the video you want to use and then click OK.

That's all for users to insert youtube videos into powerpoint presentations. Choose anyone you like and Good Luck for your perfect show!

TOP 6 Free PowerPoint Viewers on Android Devices

Jane got an android phone as a graduation gift from her father. She asks me if she can directly view office documents on it, especially powerpoint. Classmates in her class have made powerpoint presentations as a memento.

Thanks to Android, there are many free APP we could find on Android Markets. Today, I collect the top free powerpoint viewer for Android. You can get anyone of them without paying even a penny and read documents on Android phones with ease.

• Mobile Document Viewer
OpenOffice.org and (with limitations) Microsoft Office 2007 document viewing application for Android-based devices. It allows opening office productivity application documents located in the filesystem, e.g. on sd card, as well downloaded documents, files on Dropbox, or documents files attached to an email. It offers zooming in and out of documents, searching inside documents as well as copying text from documents. And it even offers reading text documents (.odt, .sxw, .docx) aloud.

• ThinkFree Office Mobile Viewer
Free document viewer for Android.
ThinkFree Office Mobile Viewer v2.0 can view MS Office docs(Word/Excel/Powerpoint), send/View email attachments, seamless integration with ThinkFree Online, and support Google Docs.
Application only applies to Froyo 2.2 and will update to Gingerbread 2.3 shortly.

• Kingsoft Office
Kingsoft Office is known as the most user-friendly mobile Office: whether in a small cell phone screen or on a large screen on the Tablet, Kingsoft Office has a superior performance! And it is also the only mobile Office with full-features FREE. FREE to view DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX files, create DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX.

• OfficeSuite Viewer
OfficeSuite is a universal and FREE and AD FREE office document viewer for Android enabling you to open native DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, LOG, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX, EML, PDF and ZIP files and attachments ANYWHERE, ANYTIME!

• Documents To Go 3.0 Main App
Only a Document viewer for Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint Files. If you are looking to edit documents, you need to pay for another upgrade version.

• Docs Viewer
Docs Viewer allows you to use Google Docs/Drive to quickly view documents on Android, including PDFs and Microsoft Office Files. Docs Viewer integrates directly with Android's Internet Browser, Email Clients, File Managers, and apps such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Evernote, etc.

These PowerPoint viewers don't support play embedded audios and videos. To enjoy a whole presentation, you'd better convert powerpoint to video, keeping everything from original document.
Play Documents on Android:

• Free SWF Players for Android

How to Add Your Own Logo on PowerPoint Presentaions

If you are making a PowerPoint presentations about your new products, and will show it to your customers, adding your company's logo on it will impress them.

There are two methods for you to choose.

• Method 1: Add Logo on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Step 1: Open the slideshow which you want to add logo.

Step 2: Click View - Slide Master

Step 3: After step 2, you will see a editable area on the lower right corner of the top slide in the left slides list, and it is the area we can put logo.

Step 4: Insert your logo image like inserting an image into slide. Of course, you can put your logo anywhere you want just by moving the image.

Step 5: Then, switch to the Normal view, the LOGO you added will be displayed on every slide, including the New Slide.

• Method 2: Add LOGO when Converting PowerPoint to Video/DVD/Blu-ray 

When you want to share pictures or videos with others on the internet, would you prefer to add some logos to protect or promote instant public recognition? Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Pro is really good at that. You can add your logo during the process of PowerPoint to DVD/Video/Blu-ray conversion.