Creating a Summary Slide

PowerPoint offers a quick way to create a summary slide (also known as an agenda slide). You can use this slide at the beginning of a presentation, as its name implies, but it's also effective at the end of a presentation, to quickly recap your main points. You can also print out the summary slide and use it as a leave-behind.

In essence, you select the slides you want to summarize, and then PowerPoint gathers the titles from all those slides and turns them into bullet points on a new slide.

Follow these steps for the easiest way to set up a summary slide:

  1. Go into Slide Sorter view by clicking the Slide Sorter icon on the View Bar.

  2. Select the slides you want to summarize by Ctrl+clicking each in turn.

  3. Click the Summary ...

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