I'm using Office 2011 (PPT 14.7.7) on a MacBook Pro, retina display, late 2013 running High Sierra (10.13.6). I've got Automator 2.8.
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Enter your Mac login password, if prompted, and then click Install Software. (This is the password that you use to log in to your Mac.) The software begins to install. Click Close when the installation is finished. If Office installation fails, see What to try if you can't install or activate Office 2016 for Mac. I'm using Office 2011 (PPT 14.7.7) on a MacBook Pro, retina display, late 2013 running High Sierra (10.13.6). I've got Automator 2.8. This is my back-up computer, and I keep Office 2011 on it so I can use the 'Reapply Notes Master' command in PowerPoint which doesn't exist in Office 2016 or Office 2019.
This is my back-up computer, and I keep Office 2011 on it so I can use the 'Reapply Notes Master' command in PowerPoint which doesn't exist in Office 2016 or Office 2019.
I've recently converted 50+ presentations from 4x3 to 16x9, and in the process of doing so, discovered that the majority of my slides do not have the Notes Master applied because over the past several years, I've copied slides from one presentation into another, and the source files all had different Notes Masters.
Now I'm trying to get everything fixed, and I figured Automator would be the way to do it. So I recorded the steps, but when I run the workflow, it always says 'PowerPoint is not running.' The workflow includes clicking on the PowerPoint icon in the dock.
I'm going to post my question in Mactopia as well, so I apologize if you see it twice.
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MacBook Pro 13', macOS 10.14
Posted on May 25, 2019 7:21 PM
This came from a response to a fellow traveller in the Mac Power Users Facebook group. I was about to share the Automator action and Hazel rule that make up this little scheme when it dawned on me that this is a good opportunity to share a fairly straight forward workflow you can easily automate.
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This is a fairly common need among students. Most good lecturers will share their presentations with you for their classes. Automating the filing of those slides is both, a good way to save a little time, and a way to ensure a consistent and reliable filing system. I don’t know about you, but my file management can get a little haphazard when done manually.
The situation is simple. Before or after class you are either sent, or given access to download a Powerpoint presentation with the slides for that particular lecture. However, you would rather have a PDF copy – or images as my MPU colleague prefers. There are a few ways you can come at this. If you simply want a PDF copy of the presentation, you can use Hazel to call an AppleScript and convert the file, rename and move it, and you’re done. If on the other hand you want images, you could do the conversion with an Automator workflow and simply add the ‘Render PDF as Images’ action to the end. Thereafter, it is a simple matter for Hazel to move the new file to wherever you want it. I tend to have it placed in my PDF Expert folder in iCloud, so I can markup the presentation on the iPad. Here is what the two versions of Hazel rules, and the Automator workflow look like:
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If you want to build the Automator workflow yourself — and, there is no better way to learn how to use it — there are a couple of things to look out for. If you have any version of MS Office prior to 2016, you might be able to use the built-in automator action that looks like this:
Whether or not that will work for you is going to depend on the version of PowerPoint used to create the presentation. There appears to be some obscure bug with passing Office file names to Automator. As far as I can tell, MS Office no longer supports Automator directly, so you have a choice of hacking what you can from the 2011 actions or using AppleScript. Rather than messing around, trying to debug incompatible actions, AppleScript is your friend here. You can download the script itself here. It is also included in the Automator workflow, which you can download below, along with the Hazel rules. Happy Automating!