Insert a Word Outline

When you use an outline from Word, PowerPoint picks up the outline structure from the following formatting elements in Word:

  Styles—Heading 1 becomes the slide title, Heading 2 becomes the first level of text, and so on, up to five levels of subhead text. When you import an outline, levels six and below are all imported as level five text in PowerPoint. Only heading styles are used to create slides; additional body text is ignored.

  Paragraph indents—if your outline includes only regular text (that is, if no styles, such as headings, have been applied)

  Tabs—at the beginning of paragraphs in plain text files

While working in PowerPoint, you can insert outlines from Word or another application into your presentation by clicking Slides from Outline (Insert menu).

Import an entire presentation   Create a new presentation from an outline in any file format that PowerPoint reads. Click Open (File menu), and select Outlines in the Files of type list. AutoFormat button (Word) Create headings quickly with AutoFormat   If the Word document you are using isn’t formatted or doesn’t use standard heading styles, click the AutoFormat button in Word to apply standard styles to the whole document before you import it. PowerPoint can then use these styles to create slides. Insert slides from other presentations   While working in one presentation, you can insert individual slides from other presentations (or another application) by clicking Slides from Files (Insert menu).

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