What program are you trying to read the PowerPoint presentation in. If PowrePoint, try saving it with the save as option. I frequently use PowerPoint presentations without any problems. Robert McCoy Home (506) 459-6636 Your community needs you, get involved by volunteering -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ann Byrne Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:45 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Reading PowerPoint documents I have an eight-slide PowerPoint document, including text boxes, that I want to convert to text. JAWS is struggling with it in PowerPoint, and I can't cut/paste it either in slide view or in outline view. I thought I saw a utility somewhere that would make the conversion but I don't remember where--the story of my life! Any suggestions?? thanks, Ann -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx