handouts - "powerpoint can't write to word".

Hello

Had the same issue, but now it works.

Solution:

I deactivated all addins and then it worked.

Activated one addin after another.

Found out that it was one specific addin in word, who caused the issue.

PowerPoint Addins stayed all activated

I just did a bit of testing and found out that when I take a 2010 PPT file from a coworker and modified his notes by formatting some of his notes with underlines, italics or bold or a combination of any of these formatting options and then do the send to word option it errors out. But if I take the file he had sent me without any text formatting used other than bold it worked each time. I don't have time to test this further but its been noted as an issue online for several years now and many recommendations are out there to solve the issue but not work as an ongoing solution. MS has not been able to find the issue but if someone else can comment as to formatting being done in the notes, this information might help MS to solve this issue.

I realize PP resource intensive but some things don't make sense.

I have a number of PP presentations for a class I teach - all about the same size, 22,000kb. They vary in length, some 60 slides, some 120 slides.

All completed handouts but one, one of the smaller-sized ones. I couldn't figure why it would hang up on slide #60, only had 80 slides and at 20,000 kb.

I went back in and looked at each photo that was in the presentation. Some were larger than normal. I went in and resized through PhotoShop so each was near or under 1mb. Tried to run handouts again, and it still stuck on that number slide. I removed the image, hoping it would go ahead and complete the handout. I could go back in and paste the slide in when it was done, but it still hung up.

I tried on 3 separate computers in my computer lab and each had the same problem. I finally had to divide the presentation up - but then the numbering of the slides is not correct throughout.

On my main computer - I can't even get one handout completed - same HP computer but I'm running Windows7 with Office10. All other computers in my lab are WinXP with Office7 - all imaged the same.

I thought it may not be clearing the clipboard but that's not the problem. There is something else wrong here and I wish someone would figure it out.

Frustrated PP User

This completely solved the problem for me!  I had been able to write to word with the same presentations during previous sessions but then, after what I thought was minor tweaking of the notes, I could no longer write to word.  During my tweaking I had italicized, underlined, and bolded (emboldened?) text in the notes pages in just a few places. I removed all the special formatting after reading the comment and the conversion worked perfectly.  Thank you very much Mr. Lowe!!