Converting Powerpoint to Word problem

[moosic]

I have a 2007 Powerpoint presentation with 234 slides--all but about 10 of them are pictures. Every time I try to convert the presentation into Word, it goes into a loop at around slide 171 and refuses to convert the remainder of the slides (the content of the slide that crashes has varied over time). Any ideas? Also is there a way to put more than 3 slides on each page--I am killing a lot of trees each time I print this out for editing.

I also want to print just the notes--as a script--to use with the presentation--but without the slides. Is there any way to do that?