Copy Textual content and Formatting From Phrase to PowerPoint

Do you’ve a Microsoft Phrase doc it is advisable to current in Microsoft PowerPoint? Right here’s learn how to copy content material from Phrase to PowerPoint with out dropping the formatting.

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Copying Bulleted Lists from Phrase to PowerPoint

Do you’ve a block of textual content or a bulleted checklist you created in Phrase that you just need to current utilizing PowerPoint? Observe the steps beneath to repeat and paste your textual content or checklist to PowerPoint with out dropping the formatting:

  1. In Phrase, spotlight the textual content you need to copy.
  1. Proper-click on the highlighted textual content and choose “Copy.” Alternatively, spotlight the textual content, then press Ctrl + C.
Microsoft Word Right Click Menu
  1. In PowerPoint, go to the slide the place you need to paste the textual content that you just copied from Phrase.
Microsoft Powerpoint Slides
  1. Choose the “Insert” tab.
Microsoft Powerpoint Insert Tab
  1. Click on on “Textual content Field.”
Microsoft Powerpoint Insert Tab Text Box
  1. Draw a textual content field on the slide by dragging and clicking within the slide space.
Microsoft Powerpoint Text Box
  1. Proper-click contained in the textual content field.
Microsoft Powerpoint Right Click
  1. Beneath “Paste Choices,” choose the second icon (with a paint brush), which is “Hold Supply Formatting.” Alternatively, press Okay after opening the right-click menu.
Microsoft Powerpoint Paste Options

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Copying Strains or Blocks of Textual content from Phrase to PowerPoint

If the textual content you need to copy from a Phrase doc to a PowerPoint presentation doesn’t include bullet factors, you don’t have to attract a textual content field to retain formatting. Observe the steps beneath.

  1. In Phrase, spotlight the textual content you need to copy.
Microsoft Word Highlight Text Paragraph
  1. Proper-click on the highlighted textual content and choose “Copy.” Alternatively, spotlight the textual content, then press Ctrl + C.
Microsoft Word Right Click Menu 2
  1. In PowerPoint, go to the slide the place you need to paste the textual content that you just copied from Phrase.
Microsoft Powerpoint Slides
  1. Throughout the slide you chose, right-click on the realm the place you need to paste the copied textual content.
  2. Beneath “Paste Choices,” choose the second icon (with a paintbrush), which is “Hold Supply Formatting.” Alternatively, press Okay after opening the right-click menu.
Microsoft Powerpoint Right Click Menu 2

Copying a Desk from Phrase to PowerPoint

You probably have a desk you created in Phrase that you just need to paste to a PowerPoint presentation, observe these steps to take action with out dropping the formatting:

  1. In Phrase, click on on both of the 2 small squares outdoors the desk you need to copy to spotlight it.
  1. Proper-click on the highlighted desk and choose “Copy.” You may also spotlight the desk and press Ctrl + C.
Microsoft Word Table Right Click Menu
  1. In PowerPoint, go to the slide the place you need to paste the desk you copied from Phrase.
Microsoft Powerpoint Slides
  1. Proper-click on the realm the place you need to paste the desk.
Microsoft Powerpoint Table Right Click
  1. Beneath “Paste Choices,” choose the second icon, which is “Hold Supply Formatting.” Alternatively, press Okay after opening the right-click menu.
Microsoft Powerpoint Table Paste Options

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Steadily Requested Questions

Do these similar directions apply to pasting photos formatted in Phrase to PowerPoint?

No. Photographs you inserted and formatted in Phrase will seem the identical in PowerPoint, even when you use Ctrl + V to stick or some other paste choice.

The colour, measurement, image fashion, alt textual content, and different formatting stays the identical.

Can I resize tables pasted from a Phrase doc?

Sure. You possibly can resize columns and rows pasted from a Phrase doc to a PowerPoint presentation and resize them the identical method you’ll in Phrase. You possibly can resize the column width, row peak, and resize the entire thing from all 4 sides. When you’d prefer to export from Phrase to a PDF as an alternative, we have now you coated.

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