I was given a PPT presentation for a course. When I open the outline view, all the text on the slide appears instead of just the title. Is there a way to set a default for what appears on the outline view or did the creator somehow use title boxes for all the text?
That was interesting and I did learn somethng about presenter but the presentation is just in PPT and I was wondering how they got all the text showing in the outline view of PowerPoint itself instead of just the title text.
Here's a slide and the outline view. I know I can change the title that appears in the outline in Presenter but I want to find out how they got all the text onto the outline slide. There are two separate text boxes but I don't know if both are "Title' boxes, which would explain things. If there is a way to set the default to include something other than the title, I wanted to know where that option is in PPT. I can fix the problem in my final version but I am curious as to what the heck happpened here.
Hi Jon, that is how outline view works in PowerPoint, it will show all text in the placeholders. From there you can actually edit the text that appears on the slide ie it is a working view, not a view that the end user would see.
The outline view isn't what will be seen in the presenter menu view
I have not had that experence, Blair. I just opened a new PPT presentation, used the Title and Subtitle boxes and added a text box. As you can see, the text in the text box does not appear on the outline. I suspect they copied the title or subtitle box all over the slides. As I said, it won't affect my final product but I was just tryng to figure out f PPT has an options setting for what's included in the outline view.
There is a way to create a basic presentation outline in a Word document, and then send it to PowerPoint and have it set up the slides like what you are seeing. This is perhaps what the person did that you got the PPT from.
Thanks, folks. They either used the placeholders for all the text or possibly created it in Word first as Melanie suggests. I appreciate the feedback. And...I learned a few new things today! That's always good.
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Happy New Year, Jon!
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but are you looking for something like this?
That was interesting and I did learn somethng about presenter but the presentation is just in PPT and I was wondering how they got all the text showing in the outline view of PowerPoint itself instead of just the title text.
Hi Jon.
Can you take a screenshot of your issue? I'm not sure I understand what you are looking to achieve.
Jon,
Could you be talking about someone maybe using the title box on the PPT slide to write ALL the text into?
(vs using text box for body text and title box for title)
Here's a slide and the outline view. I know I can change the title that appears in the outline in Presenter but I want to find out how they got all the text onto the outline slide. There are two separate text boxes but I don't know if both are "Title' boxes, which would explain things. If there is a way to set the default to include something other than the title, I wanted to know where that option is in PPT. I can fix the problem in my final version but I am curious as to what the heck happpened here.
Hi Jon, that is how outline view works in PowerPoint, it will show all text in the placeholders. From there you can actually edit the text that appears on the slide ie it is a working view, not a view that the end user would see.
The outline view isn't what will be seen in the presenter menu view
I have not had that experence, Blair. I just opened a new PPT presentation, used the Title and Subtitle boxes and added a text box. As you can see, the text in the text box does not appear on the outline. I suspect they copied the title or subtitle box all over the slides. As I said, it won't affect my final product but I was just tryng to figure out f PPT has an options setting for what's included in the outline view.
Sorry Jon, text boxes won't display. Outline view will show all text in text/content placeholders (from the slide layouts)
There is a way to create a basic presentation outline in a Word document, and then send it to PowerPoint and have it set up the slides like what you are seeing. This is perhaps what the person did that you got the PPT from.
Thanks, folks. They either used the placeholders for all the text or possibly created it in Word first as Melanie suggests. I appreciate the feedback. And...I learned a few new things today! That's always good.
Jon
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