Can InDesign pages be used in PowerPoint?

Jacqueline Peeler

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- November 22, 2017 at 11:44 am #99827
  
  Jacqueline Peeler
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  I have a potential job to design a sales deck but they need the end product in PowerPoint and editable by end users in PowerPoint.. I have only minimal PowerPoint skills so hesitant to accept the job, but wonder if there is a way to import InDesign pages into PowerPoint.
- December 2, 2017 at 5:11 pm #100027
  
  Aaron Troia
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  Hey Jackie,
  
  I’m not sure if you cant export straight to PowerPoint natively, they’re might be a plugin or script that might do it, but I’m not sure of one off the top of my head. That said it appears you could do a job in InDesign export to PDF then in Acrobat convert to PowerPoint. I haven’t tried it but it looks possible just not straight from InDesign.
  
  https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/how-to/pdf-to-powerpoint-pptx-converter.html
- December 2, 2017 at 5:50 pm #100028
  
  David Blatner
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  There is also the ID2Office plug-in from Rorohiko.com — it has a great way to export directly from InDesign to Powerpoint (or Keynote).
  
  Otherwise, sometimes people just export all the InDesign pages as PNG or JPEG and place those as static images in PPT.
- December 3, 2017 at 4:49 pm #100031
  
  Aaron Troia
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  Thank you David! My initial thought was to look at Marksware’s or Em Software’s products, but I found an ID2Office plugin from Recosoft, which might be the one you’re referring to. This might be another viable option for you Jackie.
  
  ID2Office
- December 5, 2017 at 9:40 am #100060
  
  Jacqueline Peeler
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  Thanks so much for these great ideas. On this project some of the slides will need to be editable as they are to be personalized for the user’s situation. I saw that the InDesign to Acrobat to PowerPoint option does allow for that. Started to experiment with this but a bigger project came in so it will have to wait a week. Want to look at the plug in options mentioned too.
  
  So grateful for these answers because this will open up a new area of work for me.
- December 18, 2017 at 7:35 pm #100381
  
  Rosita Yu
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  Yes, of course, export the files as PDF, then find an online PDF converter for converting to Powerpoint.
- June 15, 2018 at 4:36 am #104317
  
  RaÌÄ®ÕÌâåøsa Calleeuw
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  export the InDesign to PDF. Open the PDF en go to File > Export to… Microsoft Powerpoint. Some things aren’t correct like textboxes that might be too small or underlining that isn’t correct, but it works.
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