PowerPoint Insert Word Table

Question

I have a table in Word 2007 that goes on for several pages.  Is there an day way to cut and paste the entire table into PowerPoint?  When I try cutting and pasting the entire table at once, only the first page shows in PowerPoint.  When I try to cut and paste each page of the table in Word to a separate slide in PowerPoint, the column headings do not appear.  

I also tried saving the Word 2007 doc as a 2011 doc and using the "New Slide" "Insert Slides from Outline" command, but get error that Powerpoint cannot open document (either when saved  in 2007, or 2011).

VERY FRUSTRATING!!

Please advise.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Adding to what Jim wrote, there is no way to have a huge table from Word (or anywhere else) distribute itself across multiple slides 'automagically'. You'll have to Copy/Paste one portion of the table at a time onto each individual slide. Then Insert a row at the top of each table segment to add your captions.

The Insert> Slides from> Outline feature will not work for anything other than an Outline document saved in Word. You can use the Insert> Object method to insert a Word table if the document contains nothing but a table, but it will not do any good for a table that large.

No disrespect - and I have no idea what the content of the table might be - but IMO, inundating viewers of the presentation with 6-8 consecutive table slides is overkill to the point of being counterproductive. If it's numerical data you might want to consider using a Chart, instead. If it's text, there has to be a better way that will hold the attention of the audience.

Regards,

Bob J.

Answer 2

If you have used Word's ability to automatically add a header at the beginning of each page, that feature won't carry forward into PowerPoint directly because that uses Word Fields, which are not supported in PowerPoint.

But more importantly, I can't figure out what you are expecting to see. If you copy a multiple page table from Word and paste it into PowerPoint the table is going to be so big it won't fit onto a slide. I used Paste Special and chose Formatted Text, and that pasted a mutli-page table into PowerPoint, but as a practical matter if I resize the table to fit into the slide it will be way to small to see.

How do you want the table to look?  Do you want it to span several slides?

Answer 3

Are using Office 2007 for Windows or Office 2008?

How are you trying to copy the files and pasting it into PowerPoint?

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