Importing text from Web pages

PowerPoint accepts imported text from several Web-page formats, including HTML and MHTML (Single File Web Page). It is helpful if the data is in an orderly outline format, or if it was originally created from a PowerPoint file, because there will be less cleanup needed.

There are several ways to import from a Web page:

  • Open a Web-page file as you would an outline (see the preceding section), but set the file type to All Web Pages.
  • Insert the text from the Web page as you would a Word outline (In the Home tab, click New Slide?Slides from Outline).
  • Reuse slides from a Web presentation as you would from any other presentation (In the Home tab, click New Slide?Reuse Slides).

You should use one of the above methods rather than pasting HTML text directly into PowerPoint. This is because when you paste HTML text, you might get additional HTML tags that you don’t want, including cross-references that might cause your presentation to try to log onto a Web
server every time you open it.

When importing from a Web page, don’t expect the content to appear formatted the same way that it was on the Web page. We’re talking strictly about text import here. The formatting on the Web page comes from HTML tags or from a style sheet, neither of which you can import. If you want an exact duplicate of the Web page’s appearance, take a picture of the page with the Shift+PrintScreen command, and then paste it into PowerPoint (Ctrl+V) as a graphic.

If you are importing an outline from an MHTML-format Web page that contains pictures, the pictures are also imported into PowerPoint. If importing from a regular HTML file, you cannot import the pictures.

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