Presentation Outline

1. Developing an Outline

After AutoContent Wizard, PowerPoint generates an outline.
To develop your own outline,
- create a blank presentation and then type your outline.
Add new slides or duplicate existing slides in your presentation.
Insert an outline you created by another program, such as Microsoft Word:
- document should use outline heading styles.
- PowerPoint creates slide titles, subtitles, and bulleted lists based on the outline styles.

The Outline view provides a useful overview of a presentation.
In Outline view you work without the distraction of colors, graphics, charts, and tables.
Text can be entered in either Outline view or Slide view.
It is easy to create slide content simply by entering the text.
The Outline pane is an ideal place to edit your text especially if you want to move text around between different slides
It can be helpful to increase the zoom for the Outline pane. The default zoom for Outline pane is 33%.
You can modify outline structure on each slide by using up to five levels of indentation.

Outlining toolbar can be displayed by selecting
- View menu,
  - Toolbars
    - Outlining.
The toolbar is docked down the left hand side of the PowerPoint window by default.

In the Outline pane of Normal view,
- Click at the end of the slide text where you want to insert a new slide.
- On the Formatting toolbar,
  - click the New Slide button,
  - double-click a layout (or press Ctrl+Enter to insert a new slide.)

In the Outline pane in Normal view,
- click in the line you want to indent.
- If necessary, click the View menu,
- point to Toolbars,
- click Outlining to display the Outlining toolbar.
Click the button you want:
- To indent the line in one level, click the Promote button.
- To indent the line out one level, click the Demote button.

In the Outline pane of Normal view,
- click the slide after which you want to insert an outline.
- Click the Insert menu, and then click Slides From Outline.
- Locate and then select the file containing the outline you want to insert.
- Click Insert.

Tip: to open an outline from another program in PowerPoint,

Slide Sorter view allows to instantly rearrange slides in Outline or Slide pane.
To move slides to a new location:
- Apply Drag-and-drop, or
- Use Cut and Paste buttons.
In the Outline pane of Normal view,
- to move the selected slides within the outline,
- use Move Up and
- Move Down buttons.
Collapse the outline as necessary to see the outline structure.

In the Outline pane in Normal view,
- click the slide icon you want to move.
- Click the Move Up/Down buttons to rearrange the slide order.
- TIP: Alternatively, you can Drag the slide up or down to move it in the Outline pane.
- If necessary, click the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Outlining to display the Outlining toolbar.

In the Outline, or Slide pane, or in Slide Sorter view,
- select the slide(s) you want to move.
- Click the Cut button on the Standard toolbar.
- Click the new location.
- Click the Paste button on the Standard toolbar.