Sorry, I guess I should have clarified what I'm trying to do .. I was thinking of building a small utility that will take a specific ppt, and 'extract' all the info within i.e. each slide will be saved as a gif, and all the notes would be saved either as html files or into a database with all formatting retained. The extracted info would then be visible through a browser (slide image + notes).

I've been able to write the images and the text from the notes pages, using the examples posted within this forum. However, since the notes in the original ppt could be formatted, I would ideally like to extract it with all formatting intact. Hence, when displayed in a browser, the notes would look exactly as it did in the original ppt.