Create a text handout from a PowerPoint deck
Students, trainers and meeting organisers often want the content of a deck as a document people can read, print or annotate, without needing PowerPoint.
PowerPoint to PDF writes each slide as one landscape page with its title, body text and table rows as bullet lines at their outline levels, plus the slide number.
Example: a 25-slide lecture deck becomes a 25-page PDF in which every page shows the slide title and its bullet points in outline order. Students can print it, annotate it, or read it on a phone without PowerPoint, and screen readers can read the text aloud because it is real text, not an image of the slide.
This is a text handout, not a picture of your slides. Images, charts, shapes, backgrounds, themes, animations and speaker notes are not carried over, and a slide made entirely of an image will show only its title. If you need slides to look exactly as designed, export a PDF from PowerPoint itself. The text version is useful for revision notes, accessible reading and quick review.
Step by step
- Save the deck as .pptx.
- Sign in, open PowerPoint to PDF and add the file.
- Convert and download the handout PDF.
- Check that each slide's title and bullets read well.
Tips
- Give every slide a real title; it becomes the heading on each page.
- Older .ppt files must be saved as .pptx first.
- Compress or merge the handout with other notes using the PDF tools.
Questions
- Are pictures included?
- Not yet. The handout contains text only.
- Is the slide order kept?
- Yes. One page per slide, in original order.
- Is my deck stored?
- The input is converted in memory, not stored. The PDF is stored privately for download and becomes eligible for cleanup after an hour; deletion runs on later submissions.