Although we update our training material often, we reuse the PowerPoint year after year. This has caused many of our PowerPoint courses to become corrupt (from several versions of PowerPoint being used over the years). We are in the process of recreating all of our training and would like to reuse a lot of the text. If we copy the text from the corrupt file could it cause our new PowerPoint course to become corrupt? Thanks in advance for your help.
I don't have a definitive answer on this but I've always erred on the side of caution when copying from one file to another (especially if one of them is actually or potentially corrupt).
What I'll often do, rather than retyping everything, is copy the text, paste it into Notepad (strips out formatting) and then recopy from Notepad and then paste into the final, new file.
It's an extra step but has worked for me over the years in both Word and PowerPoint.
You could also use the "Paste as plain text" option in PowerPoint but I personally haven't trusted that
Good luck! I know how much it stinks when you realize your files are corrupt.
I'm totally with Leah on this one. Notepad is one of you best friends! Paste as plain text seems to be working well to. Just remember to safe often and don't work on a network- or external drive when developing course content. Especially when working with Articulate software.
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Hi Angela,
I don't have a definitive answer on this but I've always erred on the side of caution when copying from one file to another (especially if one of them is actually or potentially corrupt).
What I'll often do, rather than retyping everything, is copy the text, paste it into Notepad (strips out formatting) and then recopy from Notepad and then paste into the final, new file.
It's an extra step but has worked for me over the years in both Word and PowerPoint.
You could also use the "Paste as plain text" option in PowerPoint but I personally haven't trusted that
Good luck! I know how much it stinks when you realize your files are corrupt.
Leah
I'm totally with Leah on this one. Notepad is one of you best friends! Paste as plain text seems to be working well to. Just remember to safe often and don't work on a network- or external drive when developing course content. Especially when working with Articulate software.
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