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From: chagnon
Date: Feb 6, 2018 3:45PM

Lisa wrote: "Any other weird stuff you have found with PPT to PDF?"

Ha! The entire process is one weird experience! My top weird-oddities are:

1. Never make your own template from scratch. Instead, take one of their existing templates or sample PPTs and hack it.

2. Of course, follow MS's guidelines here, https://support.office.com/en-us/article/make-your-powerpoint-presentations-accessible-6f7772b2-2f33-4bd2-8ca7-dae3b2b3ef25 but note that this doesn't work well.

3. When your bullets don't export as L/LI tags, copy/paste a bullet list from one of MS's accessible PPT files and then re-style the content to fit your design. See: https://templates.office.com/en-us/Accessible-Template-Sampler-TM16401472?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US Use any of the accessible templates from the Download button in the upper half of the page, not the lower PPTs.

4. Controlling the Order in the PPT doesn't always produce the reading order you want in the PDF. My shop has given up trying to figure out a workaround for this one.

--Bevi

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