Formatting the text box, when copy to Powerpoint
Hi. I have poked around in your help and here on the forum, but I am having trouble trying to figure out how to Specifically modify the Copy style to export to Powerpoint, so that it will produce a text box in the text box placement /font /paragraph settings/ text box size where I want it to be in my Microsoft Powerpoint presentation
I have mucked about in Powerpoint and set the default for text boxes, but Logos seems to do its own thing, irrespective of what the default is. So I figure it is something about the "Edit style". I have managed to create styles to my liking, but I can't figure how to accomplish this more technical specification.
At the moment I have to get in and manually format in Powerpoint, every single time I "Copy and Paste" a Scripture.
So how do I (for example):-
- Get it to set the default font pitch to 28 pts?
- How do I get it to paste a box which is always 23 cm in width?
- How do I get it to position said box at 1.3 cm (Horizontal Position) and 1.52 cm (Vertical position) every time it pastes into Powerpoint
- How do I get it to set "Paragraph Spacing" to default to "/Spacing after/" at 0 pt ? rather than 10pt
If i can get some answers this will save me a lot of time!
kind regards
Peter
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Wiki has => http://wiki.logos.com/Copy_Bible_Verses that includes several style settings: e.g. %ForEachVerseStyle=
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Yeah thanks. I have read that info &, in a general sort of way, that's fine & I understand (I think) what has been written.
But that actually does not help with the specific problem I have raised.- as far as I can see.
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Peter Junor said:
So how do I (for example):-
- Get it to set the default font pitch to 28 pts?
- How do I get it to set "Paragraph Spacing" to default to "/Spacing after/" at 0 pt ? rather than 10pt
Style can specify font pitch and paragraph spacing.
Peter Junor said:So how do I (for example):-
- How do I get it to paste a box which is always 23 cm in width?
- How do I get it to position said box at 1.3 cm (Horizontal Position) and 1.52 cm (Vertical position) every time it pastes into Powerpoint
Powerpoint has slide templates so a new slide has desired text box sizing and location.
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I must be really dull! How does it do that? How does it specify font pitch? How do you specify Pragraph spacing?
What do I have to type in to accomplish this?
I have got this far (I have deliberately bulleted so you can see whats in the style I am using) -
- %NoCharFormatting
- %NoFootnotes
- %NoCitation
- =Header
- </p>[FullPassageRef] ([Version])</p>
- =ForEachVerse
- <sup> [VerseNum]</sup> [VerseText]
- =Footer
- </p
...clearly "%NoCharFormatting" is not producing what I want - but neither is the Logos software showing how or or leading me to any alternative. So how do I tell it "Give me font at 28 pnt"? or "set paragraph 'Spacing after' to 0 pt". Is there a tricky line of code to type in, other than "%NoCharFormatting", or something?
I must be even dumber when it comes to Powerpoint Slide templates!
'cause I have edited the destination template so that the text box default is set to the size & position I want. But (as I said before), the incoming paste out of Logos seems to simply ignore all that - it gives me its own standard size and position, every single time I use it - necessitating a manual adjustment.
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Peter Junor said:
I must be even dumber when it comes to Powerpoint Slide templates!
[:$] Apologies: learned PowerPoint 2010 does not have Style in right click menu like Word 2010.
Peter Junor said:So how do I (for example):-
- Get it to set the default font pitch to 28 pts?
- How do I get it to paste a box which is always 23 cm in width?
- How do I get it to position said box at 1.3 cm (Horizontal Position) and 1.52 cm (Vertical position) every time it pastes into Powerpoint
- How do I get it to set "Paragraph Spacing" to default to "/Spacing after/" at 0 pt ? rather than 10pt
Suggest inserting a new slide in PowerPoint: e.g. Title and Content
Click Title box edge, then delete Title text box.
Click Content edge, then resize and reposition as desired.
Within Content, right click to choose desired Font, Size, and Paragraph spacing.
Duplicate slide in PowerPoint (right click on slide => Duplicate Slide)
Switch to Logos, entered desired verse(s) in Copy Bible Tool, then Copy
Switch to duplicated slide in PowerPoint, then right click for Paste options: Use Destination Theme, Keep Source Formatting, or Keep Text Only.
FYI: Keep Text Only uses Font sizing and Paragraph setup already in slide. Found "Use Destination Theme" tries to match slide's Font and paragraph setup while keeping Bold.
When to insert another slide, duplicate one that has desired font sizing, ... followed by pasting into duplicated slide. When all slides are done, the duplicate "template" slide can be deleted (or hidden).
By the way, Microsoft has Visual Basic methods for working with PowerPoint Styles => http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/PowerPoint-2010-Interact-ea2fbe1b and => http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh297633%28v=office.14%29.aspx
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Okay.
I can do that,but it seems to be a lot of mucking around every time I open a new Powerpoint project.
In summary:-
- Essentially the "Copy and Paste Function" in Logos is limited in the formatting area, in that you are stuck with whatever preset size/placement/font/parag. spacing, etc., etc., that Logos has predetermined shall be the Frame specs.
- No alteration of those specs is possible within Logos itself in the "Copy and Paste" format exported.
- If you are wanting to have anything formatted in a particular way you are consigned to the limitations of "Copy" and then in the recipient program, "Paste Special" - which ultimately is a function of the Powerpoint Software.
- Inevitably, this leads to some degree of manual stuffing around within the Powerpoint software & the degree of that manual intervention is dependant on how proficient you are with Microsoft Powerpoint.
I am surprised that this the case. I thought it might be much easier & more accommodating than that. Looks like I am constrained to do as I have been doing. Sigh!
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
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