It preserves many of the vector images, PowerPoint objects, and font choices from the original presentation before it was converted into a PDF document. The new export process for PowerPoint in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI produces a fully editable PowerPoint (*.pptx) file. You can see the progress of the export process on the screen. Choose a location where you want to save the Exported PowerPoint file.This feature is selected by default.įigure C Save as PPTX Settings dialog box You can also select a language for the OCR settings. Select Include Comments to ensure that any comments that were annotated in the PDF document carry over to the new PowerPoint file.Perform one of the following options to change your settings: These settings control the finer aspects of the PDF to PowerPoint export. The PPTX Settings dialog box ( Figure C) opens. The Save As dialog box appears similar to Figure B. Click Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation.Optionally, select just the slides you want to export to PowerPoint otherwise you'll be exporting the entire slide deck.The Content Editing sub-menu appears ( Figure A)
Open the presentation PDF that you want to export to PowerPoint.This new Adobe Acrobat feature follows a very similar export process. If you are a regular Adobe Acrobat user, you may already have used it to export PDFs back to Microsoft Word and Excel. The export process even saves any annotated notes as speaker notes in the exported version of the PowerPoint presentation.
There is no need to purchase or even download any plug-ins or helper applications. Be your company's Microsoft insider by reading these Windows and Office tips, tricks, and cheat sheets.įor this post, I am using a pre-release version of Adobe Acrobat Pro XI and PowerPoint 2010 but the steps I outline will work with the final shipping version of Acrobat Pro XI and any version of PowerPoint that supports the *.pptx format.