Text in outline mode

Translators often get presentations from clients with unknown formatting.
Recently we have found that although text boxes are editable within the
slide, the text however does not always appearin outline mode. What allows
some text appearing in ouline mode and some not? If it was all visible then
spell checking would be very easy.

Alan wrote:
Translators often get presentations from clients with unknown
formatting. Recently we have found that although text boxes are
editable within the slide, the text however does not always appearin
outline mode. What allows some text appearing in ouline mode and some
not? If it was all visible then spell checking would be very easy.

Only text in placeholders appears in outline mode. No text will appear when
somethin is written in a shape or in a text box that was drawn on the slide.

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Text in "placeholders" shows in outline view, but text in "manual textboxes"
does not.

A placeholder is the box on the slide that says "click to add text," or
"click to add title." "Manual textboxes" are the ones created when you click
the textbox icon and drag or click on the slide to add a textbox.

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"Alan" wrote in message
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Translators often get presentations from clients with unknown formatting.
Recently we have found that although text boxes are editable within the
slide, the text however does not always appearin outline mode. What allows
some text appearing in ouline mode and some not? If it was all visible
then
spell checking would be very easy.

Something MS could deal with perhaps? Many thanks for such a quick reply.

alan

"Echo S" wrote:

Text in "placeholders" shows in outline view, but text in "manual textboxes"
does not.

A placeholder is the box on the slide that says "click to add text," or
"click to add title." "Manual textboxes" are the ones created when you click
the textbox icon and drag or click on the slide to add a textbox.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx


"Alan" wrote in message
...
Translators often get presentations from clients with unknown formatting.
Recently we have found that although text boxes are editable within the
slide, the text however does not always appearin outline mode. What allows
some text appearing in ouline mode and some not? If it was all visible
then
spell checking would be very easy.

In article , Alan wrote:
Something MS could deal with perhaps?

As a friend at MS says "Why not? It's just code."

Usually this actually means something like "Right after the first shipment of ice
cubes arrives from Beelzebub." ;-)

PowerPoint has worked this way since the outline view first appeared. It's not
likely that it'll change.

On the other hand, if you'd like to export all of the text to a file you can hand
to a translator, that's fairly simple.

Export Text to a text file, extract text from PowerPoint (Mac or PC)
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00274.htm

That wouldn't help getting the text back INTO PPT once translated but it's a
start.




alan

"Echo S" wrote:

Text in "placeholders" shows in outline view, but text in "manual textboxes"
does not.

A placeholder is the box on the slide that says "click to add text," or
"click to add title." "Manual textboxes" are the ones created when you click
the textbox icon and drag or click on the slide to add a textbox.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx


"Alan" wrote in message
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Translators often get presentations from clients with unknown formatting.
Recently we have found that although text boxes are editable within the
slide, the text however does not always appearin outline mode. What allows
some text appearing in ouline mode and some not? If it was all visible
then
spell checking would be very easy.



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