Quickly convert a Word file to a PowerPoint presentation

We usually use Word to input, edit, and print materials, and sometimes we need to make PowerPoint presentations of edited and printed materials for presentations and lectures. If you re typing in PowerPoint, it's a hassle and a waste of time. If in between the two, through a piece of copy, paste, a sheet of slides, also more trouble. In fact, we can use the outline view of PowerPoint to quickly complete the conversion of Word to a PPT document.

First, open the Word document, select all, and perform the copy command. Then, start PowerPoint, and if it's Word version 2002, select Normal view and click the Outline tab (Figure 1).

Figure 1 Switch to the Outlining tab

If you don't have the outline and Slides tabs, the method displayed is on the View menu, click Normal (Restore pane), or in the lower-left corner of the window, click the Normal view (Restore pane) button, and if it is in Word version 97/2000, you can select outline view directly, Position the cursor over the first slide and the Paste command to insert all the contents of the Word document into the first slide. Then, you can set the text format as needed, include font, font size, font, color and alignment of the word, and then position the cursor to the next slide, press ENTER directly to create a new slide, and press [Shift+enter] if you want to insert a blank line. After adjusting, you can quickly finish making multiple slides (Figure 2).

Figure 2 Adjusting the inserted slides

Finally, you can use the Outlining toolbar to make further adjustments with buttons such as upgrade, demote, move up, move down, and so on.

Conversely, if you convert a PowerPoint presentation to a Word document, you can also use the outline view to quickly finish. The method is to position the cursor at the beginning of a slide other than the first, press [BackSpace] (BACKSPACE), repeat it multiple times, merge all the slides into one, and then select them all, by copying and pasting into Word.