RE: FN-FORUM: Editing powerpoint slide woes

date posted 13th March 2006 12:04

D D Glendinning wrote:
> Morning all again,
>
> Righ someone has come to me with a problem I can't seem to solve.
> They were working on a powerpoint presentation, and created a number
> of boxes (sort of a flow chart) on one of the slides. They then
> apparently copied the Slide and pasted it into word, and then (here's
> the genius) deleted the slide in powerpoint. What they are left with
> is an image in Word they can no longer edit (the image is like all
> the text boxes etc merged and uneditable) and a blank slide in
> powerpoint.

Sounds like the Word version is grouped. Everything is grouped into a
single object. Word gives you an option to Ungroup graphics. In my version
of the drawing tool it's in the 'Draw' menu of the 'Edit picture' toolbar.

Andy