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How to Convert a Word Document to a PowerPoint Presentation
Last Updated: June 14, 2024
Formatting the Document Before Converting
Converting to powerpoint.
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This wikiHow article will show you the best way to convert a Microsoft Word document into a PowerPoint presentation on your PC or Mac. By making a few quick formatting changes to your document, you can import the document into PowerPoint and automatically create pre-formatted slides without having to retype anything!
Exporting Word Documents to PowerPoint
In Word, highlight and change your title text to “Heading 1” and the information under each title to “Heading 2.” Save your document. In PowerPoint, open a blank presentation and click New Slide > Slides from Outline. Select your Word document and click “Insert.”
- Each section needs a title at the top, and the title should be on its own line. The title will then become the title of that section's PowerPoint slide.
- For example, let's say the first page of your Word document contains sales information that you'd like to appear on a PowerPoint slide called "Sales." At the top of that section, you'd type "Sales" as the title, since you want that to be the name of your slide. Below that would be the content of the slide.
- Press Enter or Return after each section so there's at least one empty line between the end of a section and the title of the next slide.
- If you don't see style examples on the toolbar, click the Styles menu to view them.
- Once you change the first title to "Header 1," go through the rest of your document and do the same with other slide titles. You'll want all of the titles to be set to this style so they'll convert properly.
- Make sure you have at least one blank line between the title and the rest of the page's content.
- In the content area, press the Enter or Return key to add space between every block of text you want separated on the slide. Every individual line or paragraph will be a different bullet on your final slide.
- Text formatted with "Heading 3"
- If you delete the spaces between lines or try to add new text, it may not be formatted correctly, so always do this step last.
- Close Word when you're finished so there are no conflicts with PowerPoint in the remaining steps.
- Every title you set to "Header 1" appears on its own slide, along with its corresponding content, which you set to "Header 2."
- You can now design the slides however you'd like using all of your favorite PowerPoint tools.
- Word will not automatically convert images for you—you will have to manually add the images into your presentation.
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- ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-powerpoint-presentation-from-an-outline-f6294909-04e9-4020-b9a8-4587b112692c
- ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/import-a-word-outline-into-powerpoint-a25f6e01-9a19-4c0d-a108-7f533e42dfe9
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1. Break the document into sections with titles. 2. Apply the "Heading 1" style to each section title. 3. Apply the "Heading 2" style to each section's content. 4. Separate each slide with a blank line. 5. Save the document as a new file. 6. Open PowerPoint and click Browse . 7. Navigate to the folder containing the Word document. 8. Select All Outlines from the drop-down menu. 9. Select the Word document and click Open . 10. Edit and save as a PowerPoint presentation. Did this summary help you? Yes No
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The easy way: do it on the web, convert a word document to powerpoint on desktop.
Not all presentations have to be made in PowerPoint. If your presentation's content is in a Word document (DOCX file), there are a couple of ways to turn your document into a PowerPoint presentation (PPTX file).
Related: How to Convert a Word Document to a PowerPoint Presentation
You can easily convert a Word document to a PowerPoint file on the web . It's an easy process, but you do have to upload your document to Microsoft's web app. If you'd rather work with your file locally, there's a way to do that on your PC.
Microsoft Word's desktop app doesn't offer the above feature to automatically convert Word files to PowerPoint. Instead, it uses a manual workaround to convert your files.
This workaround involves formatting your Word document in a way that PowerPoint accepts and then importing the document into the PowerPoint app.
First, Format the Word Document
The first step is to make your Word document PowerPoint compatible. To do this, apply the H1 header style to all headers and the H2 header style to all paragraphs in your document.
Start by opening your document with Microsoft Word. In the Word window, select a header in your document.
While the header is selected, in the "Styles" section at the top of the Word window, click the "Heading 1" style. Do this for all the headers in your document.
Next, select the paragraph beneath your header. Then, in the "Styles" section at the top, click "More," and then select "Heading 2." Format all of your document paragraphs this way.
Finally, click File > Save in Word's menu bar to save the document. (Alternatively, press Ctrl+s on Windows or Command+s on Mac.)
Close the document in Word.
Next, Import the Word Document into PowerPoint
Your Word document is now ready to be imported into PowerPoint and converted into a presentation.
Start the import process by opening PowerPoint on your computer. On the first screen in PowerPoint, click "Blank Presentation" to make a new presentation.
In the PowerPoint editing window that opens, click the "Home" tab at the top. Then, in the "Slides" section at the top, click the arrow icon beside "New Slide."
Select "Slides from Outline" in the menu that appears.
PowerPoint will ask you to select the file to import into your presentation. Here, select the Word document that you formatted earlier.
Your Word document will now be converted into a PowerPoint presentation. Each "Header 1" in your Word document will now have a dedicated slide in the presentation. Review this presentation and make changes to it if you want.
Lastly, save the presentation by clicking File > Save in PowerPoint's menu bar.
And that's all. Your Word document is now ready to be presented to your audience!
Now that you're done, if you have a PowerPoint presentation that you'd like to convert to Word , there's a way to do that, too.
Related: How to Convert a PowerPoint to Word and Make It Editable
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