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How to convert formatted text from Pages into PowerPoint or Keynote on MacBook Pro.

Anonymous
2025-04-08T19:52:13+00:00

I am attempting to reduce a several hour task of creating sermon slides in proPresenter from formatted text in an email (which requires manual formatting of each slide) to a more manageable time frame via a file format that can be imported into proPresenter. Thoughts anyone?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-09T16:51:10+00:00

    Thanks, I will give this a try.

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  1. John Korchok 231.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-04-09T00:09:18+00:00

    Since your goal is to get information into ProPresenter, you should be looking at the most direct way to get from email format to ProPresenter without detouring through a third format. I'm not familiar with the program, as it's not a Microsoft product, but here is their page about importing files: Working with Files

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  2. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-04-09T13:20:30+00:00

    Hi

    What email client are you using?

    This works if you have CoPilot

    Without knowing whether you can save your email as a text file (RTF) or Word document, I suggest copying the email contents and pasting it into a Word document. Save the Word document in your OneDrive directory.

    Then, in PowerPoint, open a new, blank presentation from a template or choose a theme you want to use, or just open a blank presentation. Then, on the first slide, click the Copilot button and choose Create a Presentation. In the next dialog choose Reference a File. Then choose the Word document to import. The current file types you can use for import right now are Word and PDF. If your proPresenter software can save a PDF version, try that instead of Word.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-14T22:17:53+00:00

    Just to bring all up to speed. I did further research and found several suggestions using tools (AdobeAcrobat, SmallPDF, Online2PDF). None of them work because I still have to spend lots of time first formatting the pages of the PPT or PPTX file to the correct size ratio. Then after converting, some tools were more useful than others, but none of them converted ALL of the fonts correctly. Unless someone comes up with a stroke of genius, I give up!

    Thanks to everyone who offered advice/suggestions.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-09T03:26:01+00:00

    That’s pretty funny - sending the proPresenter help link to me. The only import available to proPresenter is PowerPoint. My problem is getting the formatted text converted into PowerPoint. Every product’s proprietary formats allow only the most limited conversion/export. For example, Google AI may say Keynote will open an RTF file, but that is apparently old data because it won’t.

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