Turning slides into a Word document is how a presentation becomes a handout, a report, meeting notes, a script to rehearse from, or a document someone can edit and comment on. PowerPoint's own "Create Handouts" sends slides to Word only on Windows desktop PowerPoint, and the online converters upload the deck to their servers. This page does it in your browser: each slide becomes a picture, its title becomes a Word heading, its bullet points become a real Word list you can edit, and its speaker notes follow. It is free to use, with no account and no upload limit, and it runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and while the page stays open, a feature you have already used keeps working offline.
- Is the text in the Word document editable?
- Yes. Each slide's title, paragraphs, bullet points and tables are written as ordinary Word text, headings and lists, so you can edit, restyle and spell-check them. The slide picture above the text is a picture: it shows the slide exactly as designed, but its words cannot be edited inside it. Choose text and notes only if you want no pictures at all.
- Are the speaker notes included?
- Yes, in the first two settings: the notes go under each slide's text, after the words "Speaker notes", set off with a line at the left. A presentation without notes simply has none, and the page says so.
- Does the Word file keep the slide layout?
- The picture of each slide keeps it: text, shapes, photos, charts and backgrounds as designed. The editable text below is laid out as a document, top to bottom and left to right, rather than in boxes placed like the slide, which is what makes it easy to edit. Words inside charts and pictures appear only in the slide picture.
- How is the slide title found?
- From the slide's title box, which PowerPoint marks as the title; on slides without one, a short line set clearly larger than the rest is taken as the title. A slide with neither gets "Slide 5" (its number) as its heading, and the page counts those under the file.
- Can I convert an old .ppt file to Word?
- Yes. PowerPoint 97-2003 files (.ppt, .pps, .pot) are read by the site's own reader, with their text, bullets and notes. Files from PowerPoint 95 and earlier are not read, and neither are presentations protected with a password to open.
- Can I convert PowerPoint to Word on a phone?
- Yes. Open this page in Safari or Chrome, tap the box and choose the presentation from Files or Downloads; the Word file is saved to Files or Downloads. A long deck with pictures needs a fair amount of memory, so on an older phone choose text and notes only if it struggles.
- Do my slides leave my computer when I convert them to Word?
- No. The presentation is read, drawn and written into the Word document in this browser tab on your device; nothing is sent to this site or anywhere else.