Split up Power Point content into different slides

Question

Im looking for a quick and effective way to split slides up into multiple slides, as shown in the picture. 

I would like each box to be on its own slide.

I have tried doing this using the outline, but as you can see no content shows up there.

(These slides were originally downloaded in PDF format which I then converted into .pptx)

Answer 1

Basically someone uploaded this online with 4 slides per page in pdf form, and I then downloaded them and converted them to .pptx and I was hoping to find an easy way to change it back to 1 slide per page.

As you can see I can click on everything and edit it just like any other content.

Answer 2

There's nothing built into PPT to help with this other than manual tedium.

Doing it via VBA is a possibility.  The code would need to know where the boundaries of the current "slides" are within each slide, then look at each shape on a slide, work out which of the four "subslides" it belongs to, and copy the correct bits to four new slides.

You'd want to make the new slides in a separate presentation that's sized to match the subslides on the four-up pages rather than any of the default sizes.  Otherwise, the code would get bogged down in a scaling mudpit, since scaling the shapes wouldn't scale the text.

If you want to tackle this yourself, we can help.  If you want to hire it out, a couple of us do that as well.

If for some reason you HAVE to have the final slides at a particular size, I've got an inexpensive add-in that'll automate it (Windows only, though).  http://www.pptools.com/resize/