Creating a Summary Slide in Slide Sorter View

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Click Slide Sorter View button.

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Open the Edit menu and choose Select All.

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PowerPoint selects all the slides in your presentation.

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Click the Summary Slide button in the Formatting toolbar.

INTRODUCTION

PowerPoint's summary slides act as a table of contents for your presentation. A summary slide displays all the titles of your slides as a bulleted list. You can use summary slides when you want to introduce your topics at the start of the slide show.

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Outline View

You can also create summary slides using PowerPoint's Outline view. See Part 3 to learn more about building presentations based on outlines.

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PowerPoint inserts a summary slide at the beginning of your presentation.

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To view the summary slide, double-click the slide.

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You can edit the slide text as needed.

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Working with Text

See Part 4 to learn more about working with slide text, including formatting and editing the text.

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Two Summary Slides

If your presentation is long, PowerPoint might insert two summary slides in order to list all the slide titles.