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Import only certain PowerPoint slides
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John Fossey
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Jan 10, 2020

I have to work on about 40 slides of a PowerPoint file with hundreds of slides. So I need to import only a certain range of slides into MemoQ. Is there a way to do this?
 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Mark the slides as hidden Jan 11, 2020

You can mark those slides you do not need as hidden (in PowerPoint, select the slides in the thumnails of the slides on the left hand-side, right-click, choose the Hide option) and then ask memoQ to only import non-hidden slides: import the PowerPoint file with options and, in the options dialog box, disable "Import hidden slides".

Do let us know if you need detailed instructions! I hope this helps.

(If the PPT file already contains hidden slides, note them down before ... See more
You can mark those slides you do not need as hidden (in PowerPoint, select the slides in the thumnails of the slides on the left hand-side, right-click, choose the Hide option) and then ask memoQ to only import non-hidden slides: import the PowerPoint file with options and, in the options dialog box, disable "Import hidden slides".

Do let us know if you need detailed instructions! I hope this helps.

(If the PPT file already contains hidden slides, note them down before hiding the unnecessary slides, since you would need to hide them again after unhiding all the parts you did not want to get into memoQ.) ▲ Collapse
 


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