4.5. Promote and Demote Items

As you build or reorganize presentation content, you may need to move upper-level headings so that they become subheadings, which is called demoting, and move lower-level headings up to become higher-level topics, which is called You can promote and demote text by using the Ribbon or the mouse.

Promote and Demote Items

1 Click the Home tab.

2 Click the Outline tab, if needed.

3 Click anywhere in a heading.

4 Click the Decrease List Level ().

  • The heading moves down one level in the outline hierarchy.

5 Click anywhere ...

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