Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2002

Using PowerPoint Presentations in Other Applications

Throughout this chapter, we discuss bringing content or tools from Word and Excel into your PowerPoint slides. Although this is the most common type of Office integration when working with PowerPoint, you will find that you can use PowerPoint content and slides in Word and Excel as well.

Any PowerPoint slide content—graphics, organization charts, text boxes—can be added to a Word document or Excel worksheet by using the Clipboard to copy the content from the slide and paste it into the target Word or Excel file. The pasted content can also be linked (as discussed previously in this chapter), so that changes to the PowerPoint content are reflected in the Word or Excel target.

Another way to ...