Teach Yourself VISUALLY™: Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007

4.8. Insert Slides from an Outline

While you can create an outline in moments using PowerPoint's Outline tab, you need not reinvent the wheel if you have already written an outline in Microsoft Word or in another PowerPoint presentation. You can import an outline from another file to supply all or part of the content for a new presentation, and then edit and format it as usual.

Import an Outline

1 Click

2 Click Open.

3 Click All PowerPoint Presentations

4 ClickAll Outlines.

5 Click the outline file to open.

6 Click Open.

The new presentation ...