How to Summarize a PowerPoint

PowerPoint's Slide Sorter can help you summarize your presentation.

Microsoft PowerPoint enables you to create visual aids for presentations. You can use titles from your existing slides to summarize key points you want to emphasize. PowerPoint will handle the summary for you in the Slide Sorter. The Slide Sorter view not only displays all your slides at a glance, but it also helps you quickly select the slides you want to summarize. A summary will be inserted into your PowerPoint.

Instructions

1. Open the presentation you want to summarize in PowerPoint 2003.

2. Make the "Slide Sorter" toolbar visible by clicking on "View," "Toolbars" and "Customize." Select the "Toolbars" tab in the Customize dialog box and click "Close."

3. Select "View" and "Slide Sorter" from the toolbar.

4. Click all the slides you want to summarize, holding the "Ctrl" key as you click them. Then select the "Summary Slide" button from the "Slide Sorter" toolbar.

5. Drag the inserted summary slide where you want it to appear.

Tips & Warnings

• According to Microsoft, "The ability to create a summary slide and a table of contents slide in your presentation is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Instead, create your own summary or table of contents slide by copying slide titles onto a new slide."

References

• Microsoft Office Online: Create Summary in PowerPoint
• Microsoft Office Online: About Summary Slide in PowerPoint 2007