{"id":75568,"date":"2014-10-25T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=75568"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:23:45","slug":"office-tip-how-to-create-a-powerpoint-presentation-from-a-word-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/office-tip-how-to-create-a-powerpoint-presentation-from-a-word-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Tip: how to create a PowerPoint presentation from a Word document"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you need to make a presentation based off of something you’ve written, why not kill two birds with one stone and turn your Word document into a PowerPoint presentation?<\/p>\n

When it comes to making a public presentation, PowerPoint<\/a> remains the industry standard. Luckily, Word does the same for word processing software. Here, I’ll show you a little trick that’ll help you take advantage of two of Microsoft’s most used programs in its Office suite: converting a PowerPoint into a Word document<\/strong> (and vice versa).<\/p>\n

1. Open a new PowerPoint presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open a new PowerPoint presentation and then go to the Insert<\/em> tab. On the left you’ll find the New Slide<\/em> icon. Click on it.<\/p>\n

\"Insert<\/p>\n

2. Choose Slides from Outline<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the drop-down menu that appears, select Slides from Outline<\/em> to import the contents of a Word document as slides.<\/p>\n

\"Slides<\/p>\n

You can also change the theme of the presentation using the default themes provided.<\/p>\n

3. Select document<\/strong><\/p>\n

Select the Word document you want. PowerPoint will then import the different headings within the text, which have been formatted using the Heading<\/em> styles. The images and the text of the document will not be automatically added to the presentation.<\/p>\n

4. Copy & Paste <\/strong><\/p>\n

To finish importing the document, all that’s left to do is\u00a0copy and paste the images and text<\/strong> from the Word document to the presentation. How? The easiest way is to have the two documents open side by side, and manually copy and paste the contents.<\/p>\n

\"Word<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Save as PowerPoint<\/strong><\/p>\n

All that’s left to do now is save the presentation in pptx format, PowerPoint’s default format. To do this go to File<\/em>, then click Save as<\/em> and then finally\u00a0Computer<\/em>. And there you have it, your PowerPoint document is finished and ready to be presented to your audience.<\/p>\n

One last tip: To do this operation in reverse, that is to say, quickly turn your PowerPoint presentation into a Word document, click on File<\/em> and then Save As<\/em>. Change the output format and choose Outline \/ RTF<\/em>. Once it’s saved on your PC, you can simply reopen the document and edit it in Word.<\/p>\n

Check out some more Office tips:<\/h3>\n

Office Tip: add page numbers to your Word document<\/a><\/p>\n

Office Tip: how to type multiple lines in an Excel cell<\/a><\/p>\n

Office Tip: type faster by replacing one word with another<\/a><\/p>\n

Office Tip: access your Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents online<\/a><\/p>\n

Office Tip: use tabs in Word, Excel and PowerPoint<\/a><\/p>\n

Office Tip: restore or minimize the Ribbon interface in Word and Excel<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally published in\u00a0French on\u00a0Softonic FR<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Follow me on Twitter:<\/em> bbrassart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you need to make a presentation based off of something you’ve written, why not kill two birds with one stone and turn your Word document into a PowerPoint presentation? When it comes to making a public presentation, PowerPoint remains the industry standard. Luckily, Word does the same for word processing software. Here, I’ll show … Continue reading “Office Tip: how to create a PowerPoint presentation from a Word document”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2043,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":2},"categories":[2441],"tags":[1060],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-75568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-microsoft-office"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329927,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75568\/revisions\/329927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75568"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=75568"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=75568"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=75568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}