Microsoft PowerPoint 97–2003 (PPT)

PowerPoint presentations contain slides that are usually projected in a presentation. Or, people view them over the internet, either through a website or through a teleconference.

In this window, you can control how memoQ imports presentations from Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or earlier (these are *.ppt or *.pot documents).

This window is for presentations from PowerPoint 2003 or earlier: Use it to import .ppt or *.pot files.

How to get here

  1. Start importing a presentation from PowerPoint 2003 or earlier (a .ppt file).
  2. In the Document import options window, select the PowerPoint presentations, and click Change filter and configuration.
  3. The Document import settings window appears. From the Filter drop-down list, choose Microsoft PowerPoint 97–2003 filter.

    powerpoint97-filter

What can you do?

First, memoQ converts the presentation into the PPTX format (the one used by PowerPoint 2007 or later).

Under Select import type: Click Import as PPTX. Do not click Import as PPT through Office Interop.

This works if PowerPoint 2007 or later is installed on your computer. memoQ calls PowerPoint to save the document in the newest format.

If PowerPoint 2007 or later isn't installed: Check the Aspose check box. memoQ converts the document into the newest format on its own. For that, memoQ uses a module called Aspose.

Click Import markup as inline tags. The other option is to import all formatting markup as legacy memoQ {tags}, which is not recommended.

In the Content to import section, you can import or ignore certain parts of the presentation. Here are the options you have:

  • Import master slides: Normally, memoQ doesn't import master slides. But if the master slides have a lot of text on them, you will need to translate them. Check this check box to import the master slides.
  • Import notes: Normally, memoQ imports the notes for the slides. Presentations may contain extensive explanations for each slide: these are the notes. When a presentation is printed or published electronically, it will contain the notes if there are a lot of them. If there are no notes, or if they are irrelevant: Clear this check box to omit them.
  • Import comments: Normally, memoQ doesn't import comments. People add comments to a presentation when they review it. These seldom need translation. But if they do, check this check box to import them.
  • Import alternative text of images: Normally, memoQ imports alternative text of images. If you do not want to translate them: Clear this check box.
  • Import soft breaks as inline tags: Normally, memoQ import soft breaks as inline tags. Clear this check box if you don't want to import them.
  • Import sections: PowerPoint 2007 and older versions don't support sections. Don't check this check box.
  • Import hidden slides: Normally, memoQ imports hidden slides that do not appear in the slide show otherwise. The contents of these slides may be important for translation and for re-using translation. Clear this check box if you don't want to import them.

If there are text boxes with several lines of text, separated by soft line breaks: Normally, they will be together in one segment, and the soft breaks appear as inline tags. If you need separate segments: Clear the Import soft breaks as inline tags check box.

After you translate an old-style PowerPoint document, memoQ converts it back to the old format when the translation is exported.

Because the original document is from an old PowerPoint version, there will be no extensions that work in PowerPoint 2007 or later only.

You can safely ignore the settings in the Compatibility group.

office-compatibility

When you finish

To confirm the settings, and return to the Document import options window: Click OK.

To return the Document import options window, and not change the filter settings: Click Cancel.

If this is a cascading filter, you can change the settings of another filter in the chain: Click the name of the filter at the top of the window.

In the Document import options window: Click OK again to start importing the documents.