Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000

Inserting a Word Table

If you want to take advantage of Word's powerful formatting capabilities, you should consider creating a Word table within your PowerPoint presentation.

To do so, choose Insert, Picture, Microsoft Word Table. The Insert Table dialog box appears, shown in Figure 4.19.

Figure 4.19. Specify the number of columns and rows in this dialog box.

Choose the Number of Columns and Number of Rows to display and then click OK. PowerPoint inserts a blank Word table in your presentation (see Figure 4.20).

Figure 4.20. You can now format this embedded Word table.

When you select the Word table, Word menu options and toolbars appear within ...