 | Create a PowerPoint presentation from a Word outline |
You can use a Word document to create a PowerPoint presentation. To set up the slides in a presentation, PowerPoint uses the heading styles in your Word document. For example, each paragraph that is formatted with the Heading 1 style becomes the title of a new slide, and each Heading 2 becomes the first level of text. To make this easy, you can create a document in outline view, which already has headings associated with the text.
 | Note You can only import an outline that is saved as a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file. |
Step 1: Create an outline in Word
You must apply a heading format to the text that you want to include in a slide. For example, if you apply the Normal style to a block of text, Word will not send that text to PowerPoint.
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Open Word.
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On the View menu, click Outline.
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Type your outline, and define the heading levels by using Promote
and Demote
.
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On the File menu, click Save As.
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In the Save As box, enter the name of the document, and then on the Format pop-up menu, click Rich Text Format (.rtf).
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Click Save.
Step 2: Import the outline to create PowerPoint slides
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Open PowerPoint.
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In the navigation pane, click the slide that you want the outline to appear after.
How to select slides in the navigation pane
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On the Home tab, under Slides, click the arrow next to New Slide, and then click Insert Slides from Outline.
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Locate the outline file (.rtf) that you want to insert, and then double-click it.
