Managing Conversions Between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office

The exchange goes both ways with Creative Cloud and Office. Learn how to convert and share assets—text, graphics, chart data, and more—between Adobe CC and Microsoft Office.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Before watching this course
• How to use the exercise files

1. Overview of Essential Differences

• Adobe design apps vs. Microsoft Office apps
• How font usage differs between suites
• Understand graphics differences
• Understand color differences
• Office for Mac vs. Office for Windows

2. Converting with Specialized Software

• Use ID2Office to convert ID files to Word and PPT
• Use PDF2ID or PDF2DTP to convert PDFs to editable ID files
• Use Snagit for screenshots

3. Between Adobe Creative Apps and Microsoft PowerPoint

• Use Adobe Acrobat to convert any file to PowerPoint
• Recreate an Adobe file from scratch in PowerPoint
• Convert Adobe background art to PowerPoint master pages
• Extract individual images from a PDF to use in PowerPoint
• Convert elements from InDesign to PowerPoint
• Convert Illustrator art into editable vectors in PowerPoint
• Replicate Adobe text formatting in PowerPoint
• Extract PowerPoint art to use in Adobe apps
• Export all the PowerPoint text to use in InDesign

4. Between Microsoft Excel and Adobe Creative Apps

• Create InDesign tables from Excel
• Automatically update InDesign tables from Excel
• Convert Excel charts into editable Illustrator objects
• Import Excel data into Illustrator charts
• Convert Excel charts for use in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator

5. Between Adobe Creative Apps and Microsoft Word

• Import formatted Word text into InDesign
• Import formatted Word text into Illustrator
• Export formatted InDesign text to Word
• Convert an InDesign layout to editable Word format
• Create an editable Word letterhead based on an InDesign design
• Add a continuation page to the Word letterhead
• Import art from Adobe apps into Word
• Extract Word art graphics to use in Adobe apps

Conclusion

• Next steps