PowerPoint® 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

7. Outlining Presentations

In This Chapter

• Creating an Effective Presentation Outline

• Using Outline View

• Modifying Your Outline

• Inserting an Outline from Another Application

A solid, well-organized outline helps you achieve the goals of your presentation. Fortunately, PowerPoint offers features that simplify the outlining process. You can use Outline view to display and organize your outline in PowerPoint or create an outline in Microsoft Word or another application and insert it into a presentation.

Creating an Effective Presentation Outline

Before you actually create a presentation, you need to determine its purpose, organize your ideas, and establish the flow of what you’re going to say. In other words, you need to create an outline, ...