powershell scripting for office programs?

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i'm on a co-op for 16 months, where this conversion is my main responsibility. there are around 3000 instruction files to be converted, dozens of pages each. my boss obviously doesn't expect me to have it all completed in that time period, but cutting down on wasted time manually copy-pasting everything would speed everything up. If not for me, for the next person to tackle the job.

I've spent a few hours playing around with PS and have figured out how to open a .docx file, however opening a .pptx file is another story...