Hi Pete
To create a ppt from a doc do the following:
1. Format all the text you want to be a slide title as Heading Style 1 in
Word
2. Format all the text you want to be first level bullet points as Heading
Style 2 in Word
3. Format all the text you want to be second level bullet points as Heading
Style 3 in Word, etc
4. Close the Word doc & open PowerPoint
5. Select the template you want to use
6. Insert -> slides from outline -> browse to Word doc (2003) or Home tab ->
New Slide drop down -> slides from outline -> browse to Word doc (2007)
7. PowerPoint will create a new slide every time it comes across Heading
Style 1 in the Word doc. It will ignore any text not in a Heading Style.
8. Play with your PowerPoint file as normal - I think you will still get the
normal overflow options on each individual slide
Hope that help,
Lucy
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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au