Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step

Create a Presentation from a Word Document

If you find it simpler to organize your thoughts in a document than while creating slides, you can outline your presentation in a Word document, Word 98–2004 document, or Rich Text Format (.rtf) file, and then import the outline into PowerPoint to create a presentation based on the outline. PowerPoint uses the heading styles in the outline to create corresponding slide titles and bullet points.

To import an outline into PowerPoint, follow these steps:

1. In PowerPoint, on the Standard toolbar, click the Open button.

2. In the Open dialog box, browse to the folder containing the outline document you want to import.

3. Click the document, and then click Open.

   In a very short time, PowerPoint creates a presentation containing ...