PowerPoint to Word (PPTX Slides to Editable DOCX)

About the PowerPoint to Word (PPTX Slides to Editable DOCX)

Choose a PowerPoint presentation (.pptx, .ppsx or .potx) and get an editable Word document (.docx): every slide becomes a section with its title as a real Word heading, its text boxes and bullets as paragraphs and lists with their levels, its tables as Word tables, its pictures embedded (cropped as on the slide) and its charts as pictures, with the speaker notes underneath. Choose Outline only for just the titles and the bulleted text, as PowerPoint’s outline shows them, or add a picture of each slide for handouts.

The presentation is read on your device by the same reader as our Office Document Viewer — the slides’ own content, without the logo and footer the slide master repeats on every slide — and the Word file is written in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Without a pass the free preview shows the first slides as Word pages under a watermark, with a summary of the whole document; with a pass, or after unlocking this result, you get the .docx.

Common uses

• Turning slides into a report, a script, meeting minutes or a handout that people can edit.
• Reusing the text of a deck in a proposal or a document without retyping it.
• Giving speaker notes to a colleague, a translator or an editor in a Word file.
• Getting the outline of a long presentation to review or translate.

Reading order

Word documents run from top to bottom, slides do not, so the converter picks an order: the slide’s placeholders first (title, subtitle, then the content placeholders), then every other text box, table and picture by position — row by row from the top, left to right within a row. Where text boxes overlap, the page warns about that slide, because the order on paper may then differ from what you read on the slide. Footers, dates and slide numbers placed on slides are left out, and so are the decorations of the slide master and layouts.

What carries over

• Text: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript and web links; colours that read on white paper (white text on a dark slide becomes black). Font sizes follow the Word document, not the slide.
• Lists: bullets keep their symbol and indent level; numbered lists stay numbered lists that Word keeps counting.
• Tables: merged cells, light cell shading, and the first row as a header row that repeats on a new page.
• Pictures: PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP as they are; SVG and WebP pictures and cropped pictures redrawn as PNG or JPEG. Charts are redrawn from the values saved in the file and kept as pictures.
• SmartArt keeps its text as a list; video keeps its poster picture.

The document follows Office Open XML (ECMA-376), so Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages and LibreOffice open it.

Limitations

• Slide layouts are not rebuilt: text boxes become paragraphs in reading order, not boxes at their positions; use PowerPoint to PDF to keep the look of the slides.
• Animations, audio and video are not converted; SmartArt keeps only its text; charts become pictures, not editable Word charts.
• Pictures in EMF or WMF format (common in decks made with older Office versions) can’t be read in a browser; a line in the document marks where each one was.
• Legacy PowerPoint 97–2003 (.ppt) files and password-protected presentations are not opened: save them as an unprotected .pptx first.

Privacy

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