Export Text From Powerpoint

I get lyrics for captioning for our church service from powerpoint.
The cut and paste of lyrics put all kinds of stray chars in it.

I learned that if you save as pdf, and then export to text, you get nicely formatted plain text.

sweet.

(ht) http://www.jasonslater.co.uk/2009/05/07/how-to-extract-text-from-powerpoint/