2014/02/03
Outline to Presentation in Seconds
If you already have an outline in Word, it can be converted to a PowerPoint very quickly. PowerPoint 2007 has a handy option when inserting new slides into a presentation…it's labeled as
"Slides from Outline". Outlines are created by programs such as Word using the styles given to different text.
If everything is in
Normal text then each paragraph would be considered an entry on the outline. If you've wisely used
header styles then the header information dictates the hierarchy of the outline.
Click on
New Slide button located on the
Home tab of the Ribbon,
click the bottom half of the New Slide button.
At the very bottom there's a choice for inserting
Slides From Outline, choose it.
NOTE: your document doesn't actually need to be in outline form. PowerPoint pulls the document information and creates the outline then puts those elements onto slides.
From there you'll be asked to
locate the file containing the information. Once you have found it, click Okay. You will be returned to PowerPoint where you'll find the new slides created, each containing a title corresponding to an element of the document outline.
That's all there is to it - you simply need to add whatever content is to be highlighted from each section and your work is done.
Presentation to Outline in Minutes
You have all those notes under each slide, and it would be wonderful if instead of printing ONE slide picture with the notes underneath per piece of paper, you could at least have 2 or 3 slides on page with the Notes BESIDE them. well, you can.
Open your presentation, click on the
Office Button, and then go down to
Publish. Choose the item that says
Create Handouts in Microsoft Office Word. You will then get this option:
Choose the option you want (usually the default, the first choice is what is used) and click
OK and it will set up the Word document. It might take a few moments if your Presentation is long!
It puts the Slide and the notes in a Table format, so you can edit the size of that in Word if you wish.
Then you can print out your Word Presentation.