Creating Slides: Creating PowerPoint Outlines Using Text Editors

Created: Wednesday, October 10, 2018, posted by Geetesh at 12:58 pm

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When you start creating a new presentation, many users just launch PowerPoint and start creating their slides. Actually, there are three common ways in which you can create slides. Yet, the best way to start creating presentation slides is not from within PowerPoint but by creating an outline in another program. Many purists say that you should not even launch PowerPoint until you have an outline in place.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Notepad

Apple Mac

Creating PowerPoint Outlines in TextEdit

Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Notepad and TextEdit

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