Creating a Presentation with Word Text

PowerPoint presentations are based on outlines, which you can create using either PowerPoint, or the more extensive outlining tools in Word. You can import any Word document into PowerPoint, although only paragraphs tagged with heading styles become part of the slides. Each Heading 1 style in a Word document becomes the title of a separate PowerPoint slide. Heading 2 becomes the first level of indented text, and so on. If a document contains no styles, PowerPoint uses the paragraph indents to determine a slide structure. You can edit the slides using the usual PowerPoint commands. You can also copy any table you created in Word to a slide.

Create PowerPoint Slides from a Word Document

Open or create a Word document with heading styles.

Click the File menu, point to Send To, and then click Microsoft Office PowerPoint.

PowerPoint opens; each Heading 1 style text becomes the title of a new slide and Heading 2 style text becomes top-level bullets on a slide, and so forth.

Save the presentation, and then edit it by adding slides, changing slide layouts, and applying a design template.

Did You Know?

You can create slides from a Word outline and insert them into an existing PowerPoint presentation . In PowerPoint, display the slide after which you want to insert the new slides. Click the Insert menu, click Slides From Outline, and then select the Word document you want.

Embed a Word Table in a Slide

Click in the Word table you want to use in a slide.

Click the table selection box (small black box in the upper-left corner of the table).

Click the Copy button on the Standard toolbar.

Click the PowerPoint slide where you want to insert the Word table.

Click the Paste button on the Standard toolbar.