Hi all,

I would like to compose a hardcopy / PDF file based on various Word and PPT documents. So far, so clear. However, I am looking for an efficient way to accomplish the following:

• All Word documents should be printed in portrait mode (standard)
• For PowerPoint documents, the idea is to print 2 slides per page (page orientation is portrait as well)
• All documents to be printed / exported in one go, based on the logic mentioned above (1 doc per page for Word, 2 slides per page for PPT)

Are you aware of a software or process to handle this? The only way I cloud think of so far was:

1. Open each PPT file separately
2. Manually print the PPT file into a PDF with 2 slides per page into a new folder
3. Copy all word documents into the new folder
4. Select all documents and print

Maybe there is a smarter way for this kind of process.

Thank you!
axeon

You could export your PowerPoint presentations to Word, then create a new Word document and copy/paste all the required content from the other documents into it. The same could be done via Insert|Object>Text from file. Alternatively, you could use INCLUDETEXT fields (via Insert|Object>Text from file, with the 'insert as link' option) to link the new file to the source documents, so that updates to the source files would be reflected in the consolidated one.

Any other process that turns each individual file into PDFs will result in a plethora of PDFs that you would have to use other software to combine.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]