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Convert your document to the TXT format
Learn how to convert PPT files to plain text (TXT) format to extract editable and universally readable text from legacy PowerPoint presentations.
Quick Access To 10 PPT File Conversion Pairs
What Is This Tool?
This tool converts legacy Microsoft PowerPoint PPT presentations into plain text (TXT) files. It extracts slide text and speaker notes, producing a simple, editable, and widely compatible text format that can be opened and edited in any text editor.
How to Use This Tool?
- Upload your PPT file containing the presentation slides.
- Select TXT as the output format for conversion.
- Start the conversion process to extract the presentation text.
- Download the resulting TXT file for editing or further processing.
Key Features
- Converts PPT files containing slides, layouts, text, images, animations, and embedded objects to plain text.
- Extracts textual content such as slide titles, bullet points, and speaker notes.
- Produces universally readable TXT files without formatting overhead.
- Supports text encoding formats like ASCII, UTF-8, and UTF-16.
- Removes all styling, formatting, embedded objects, and macros.
Examples
- Export all slide titles and bullet points from a PPT into a UTF-8 encoded TXT file for editing in any text editor.
- Convert presentation speaker notes to a plain text README file for archival or documentation purposes.
- Create a simple log file containing the textual content of a PPT presentation to be processed by scripts or version control systems.
Common Use Cases
- Extracting editable textual data from legacy PPT files for plain-text workflows.
- Generating universally compatible text archives from presentation content.
- Removing formatting and embedded objects to create lightweight text-only versions of presentations.
Tips & Best Practices
- Verify text encoding (ASCII, UTF-8, or UTF-16) to ensure compatibility with your target text editor or application.
- Be mindful that formatting, images, animations, and embedded objects will not be preserved in TXT format.
- Use the tool to prepare presentations for environments requiring simple, readable text without complex layouts.
- Check resulting TXT files for newline convention compatibility (LF vs. CRLF) when sharing across different operating systems.
Limitations
- Only textual content is preserved; formatting, fonts, images, animations, OLE objects, and macros are lost.
- Some text within embedded objects may be omitted due to the binary structure of PPT files.
- Resulting TXT files may face character-encoding and newline convention issues affecting interoperability.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What type of content can be converted from PPT to TXT?
- Only the textual content such as slide titles, bullet points, and speaker notes is converted; all formatting and embedded objects are excluded.
- Will images and animations be preserved in the TXT file?
- No, TXT format cannot preserve images, animations, or any other non-textual elements from the PPT file.
- Can I edit the TXT file on any device?
- Yes, TXT files are universally supported and can be opened and edited with virtually any text editor on any platform.
Key Terminology
- PPT
- Legacy Microsoft PowerPoint binary file format used up to Office 2003 that stores presentations with slides, text, images, animations, notes, and embedded objects.
- TXT
- Plain text file format that contains only human-readable characters without any styling, formatting, or embedded objects.
- OLE Objects
- Embedded objects within PPT files that enable interactive content or automation, which are not preserved in TXT conversions.