Use a single tab stop to separate items in tabular material. It may not look good on screen, but it will place much more efficiently in the page layout program. It is difficult, and in some cases impossible to restructure PowerPoint files for a print project. In particular, PowerPoint applies proprietary formatting to graphs and images that makes them virtually impossible to extract. Files created in MS Publisher, Print House, Printmaster or any similar home-use oriented layout programs cannot be used, because we do not have the necessary software to translate them.
Files created in Excel usually work in page layout programs for print or the Web.
There are enough glitches that we would prefer you send these only when they are the only available source of the copy. We prefer that you bring us original color or black and white prints, or color slides to use in your publication projects. We have good quality flatbed and film scanners that we can use to prepare materials for the web and on-campus printing. For off-campus printing, we often let the printer do the final scans to achieve the highest quality finished product. If you do have a digital camera and want to use the images in your publications, remember that the final size of the printed image depends on the number of pixels in the original file.