Creating Slides: What is the Outline?

Created: Wednesday, October 24, 2018, posted by Geetesh at 1:35 pm

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Although visuals, multimedia, and other slide objects can play an important role within a presentation, a proper text outline is still the main skeleton on which the body of a presentation can be sustained. Without a cohesive outline, everything else is akin to a movie that has the best photography, great music, talented cast but no story to put it all together. So how do you create a structured outline, and does PowerPoint provide sufficiently robust outlining tools?

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What is the Outline?

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