PPT2000: How to Place Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 (*.pdf) Files on a Slide

ID: Q249667

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

SUMMARY

Microsoft PowerPoint does not directly support conversion from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF is the format in which you view and exchange documents for Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 and Adobe Acrobat Exchange for Windows.

NOTE: These steps only apply to Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.x and not to earlier or later versions.

MORE INFORMATION

To convert a PDF document from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Microsoft PowerPoint, follow these steps:

To Select and Copy Text

Select the text selection tool, and do one of the following:

To select a line of text, click to select the first letter of the sentence or phrase and drag to the last letter.

To select multiple columns of text (horizontally), hold down CTRL as you drag across the width of the document.

To select a column of text (vertically), hold down CTRL+ALT as you drag through the length of the document.

To select all the text on the page, click Select All on the Edit menu.

On the Edit menu, click Copy.

In Microsoft PowerPoint, click Paste on the Edit menu.

NOTE: Text pasted from Adobe Acrobat retains its character-level formatting, for example: fonts, bold, italic, underline, color, and so on. Text does not retain graphics, paragraph formatting, and other formatting when copied to the Windows Clipboard.

To Select and Copy Graphics

Press SHIFT+V as many times as necessary to cycle through the group of tools to select the graphics selection tool. The insertion point changes to the crosshair icon.

Drag a rectangle around the graphic you want to copy. To cancel the selection of the graphic and start over, click anywhere outside the selected graphic.

On the Edit menu, click Copy.

In Microsoft PowerPoint, click Paste on the Edit menu.

NOTE: If someone has set the security of the PDF file, you may be unable to select and copy the contents of the PDF document for use in PowerPoint.

The third-party products discussed in this article are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.

REFERENCES

For information about how to contact Adobe, click the appropriate article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q65416 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

Q60781 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

Q60782 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

Additional query words: 2.0 2.1 3.0 4.0

Keywords : kb3rdparty kbdta wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto kbinfo