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From: Jason Fossen on 9 May 2010 10:07
> I made a list of new features in PPT 2010. It's here:
> http://www.echosvoice.com/2010.htm

Thanks for the tip, Echo! And I can confirm that it works, but with a
couple small issues, here are the steps:

When too much text is typed into the notes area in PowerPoint, the extra
notes have to be cut-and-pasted into a new slide and then that slide made
hidden. You don't have to do this in PowerPoint 2010 anymore. In the new
version, you can make it so that the excess notes are automatically wrapped
to a new page when you print it or save it as PDF.

It's not enabled by default, though, so this is how you do it:

Open a slide deck >
File tab on the ribbon >
Options >
Proofing >
AutoCorrect Options button >
AutoFormat As You Type tab >
Uncheck the box for "AutoFit body text to placeholder"

Notice that the excess text still spills over the notes area when viewing in
Notes Page View; however, when you print the deck or save to PDF, the
spillover text automatically goes onto new pages.

To test this, go to File tab > Print > select "Notes Pages" to print on the
left-hand side > on the right-hand side scroll down in the print preview to
a slide with too much text; if that slide is on page number 10, for example,
you'll see additional page number 10's after it to contain the excess text.
(When you do File > Save As > PDF, the PDF is formatted the same way.)

The two odd things I've noticed so far is 1) you can have multiple physical
pages with the same page number printed at the bottom, but this is trivial
in comparison to the time/effort savings, and 2) embedded screenshots in the
excess text are not printing correctly (but hopefully I'm doing it wrong so
that there is a way to make these graphics show).

Cheers,
Jason

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Jason Fossen
Enclave Consulting LLC
Blog: http://blogs.sans.org/windows-security
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From: Steve Rindsberg on 9 May 2010 11:17

> The two odd things I've noticed so far is 1) you can have multiple physical
> pages with the same page number printed at the bottom, but this is trivial
> in comparison to the time/effort savings, and 2) embedded screenshots in the
> excess text are not printing correctly (but hopefully I'm doing it wrong so
> that there is a way to make these graphics show).

Unlike Word, PPT doesn't have inline shapes; that is, you can't have
screenshots embedded in text. So I'm not sure what you're describing in the
second point.

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