Creating Slides from a Document Outline

If you have created a document in Word that includes outline-style headings and numbered or bulleted lists (see Lesson 8, "Examining Your Documents in Different Views," in the Word section of this book for more information), PowerPoint can pull the headings and the text from the document and create slides. To create slides from a document outline, follow these steps:

1. Choose the Insert menu, and then choose Slides from Outline . The Insert Outline dialog box appears (it is similar to the Open dialog box used to open a presentation or other file).

2. Use the Insert Outline dialog box to locate the document file you want to use.

3. Double-click the name of the document file.

PowerPoint then uses all the first-level headings to create slides for your presentation. Any text in the document below a first-level outline heading is added to the slide in an additional text box.