How To Get Your PowerPoint Presentation Word Count
How To Get Your PowerPoint Presentation Word Count
Having knowledge of the word count that is in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and also the speaker notes can be of help to give you a rough idea of how long it may take to present the slideshow and also where you may need to cut back. Here’s how you can find out.
The word count of your PowerPoint notes and slides or only just the speaker notes can be gotten on both Mac and Windows 10. Unfortunately, you currently cannot get the word count on PowerPoint for the web.
Viewing The PowerPoint Presentation Word Count On Your Windows
1. To get the word count of your slides and notes on your Windows 10, first open the PowerPoint presentation and click the “File” tab.
2. File tab in Microsoft PowerPoint
3. Next, select “Info” in the left-hand pane.
4. Info tab in the left hand pane of the File tab
5. Now, under the “Related Documents” section, just click the “Show All Properties.”
6. Show all properties button in Info tab
7. The “Properties” group will expand. Next to the “Words” option, you can now view the word count of the PowerPoint slides and notes. Be aware that the “Notes” option will only just show the amount of notes that appear in the PowerPoint presentation rather than just showing the word count of the notes.
8. Words option showing the word count in the Properties group
If you are going to find out the word count of just the notes, then you’ll need to export and open them in Microsoft Word.
1. Click the “File” tab and, in the left-hand pane, click “Export.”
2. Export option in left hand pane of File tab
3. In the “Export” group, select “Create Handouts.”
4. Create Handouts option in the export group
5. The section if the “Create Handouts in Microsoft Word” will then appear. Again, you click the “Create Handouts.”
6. Create handouts button
7. You'll see the “Send to Microsoft Word” dialog box appear. Now choose the page layout style that soothes your taste by clicking the bubble that is next to the desired option. In the “Add slides to Microsoft Word document” group, you'll see two options to choose from:
Paste: The content that is been pasted in Word won't reflect any updates that is made to the presentation.
Paste Link: Any updates that you have made to the presentation will be reflected in Word.
8. Click “OK.”
9. Sent to Microsoft Word dialog box
10. The presentation will then open in Microsoft Word. You’ll be able to view the word count of the notes located in the bottom-left corner of the window.
Viewing The PowerPoint Presentation Word Count On Your Mac
If you’re making use of Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, you can still get the word count of your notes and slides. However, Mac’s export option does not give you the permission to export the PowerPoint file as a Word doc, so for you to get the word count of just your notes, you’ll need to copy and paste them manually over to Word.
1. To get the word count of your presentation and notes, open PowerPoint and click the “File” tab.
2. File tab in Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac
3. Select “Properties” in the drop-down menu.
4. Properties option in File dropdown menu
5. In the “Properties” window, click the How to Get Your PowerPoint Presentation Word Count tab.
6. Statistics tab in Properties window
7. You can find the word count in the “Statistics” group.
8. Word count in statistics tab on Mac
That’s just all there is to it.
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