Oh, no! More document happiness (not!)...

Translating the content of embedded objects in PowerPoint just makes the whole experience a bit more stressful, because half the time, the content reformats itself irreversibly when you click out of the object's boundary.

But one of the PPTs currently on my plate just took the embedding thing to a new level. When I double-clicked on an object in this one slide (one of many slides that have the same appearance), I was presented with an editing window (apparently, in a PPT-hosted Word session), and that window—wait for this—contains a non-editable graphic!

My initial reaction upon encountering this was unprintable, but between then and starting this post, I've figured out how to deal with this, and I'm thinking that, actually, it's the right approach to such objects whether or not the object's content is editable.

But still... it's almost as if the document originator went out of his or her way to make the translator's life difficult!

Cheers...

The words crossed my mind...

Augean. Stables.

I've successfully dealt with almost 2,000 words that my TM program found in the Big PPT file. (By which I mean to say the program ignored the text in the embedded objects I posted about earlier.)

The found words were enough to take care of 11 of 62 slides. (Riddle me this: Who in his or her right cotton-pickin' mind would sit through a 62-slide presentation?)

At any rate, the remaining 51 slides all contain embedded objects, and while some of them are lightweight, in terms of text, there are others that strive mightily to be prolix, and generally succeed.

However, it's been a 7,500 word day, and my eyes are starting to cross, which may interfere with my watching this week's Castle, so I probably ought to knock off and give the peepers a break.

Cheers...