Step 2

Now it's time to review your outline and get an idea of what layouts you want to use to present your information... and of course build it!

Assess Your Assets

It's strongly advised that you start out with a solid outline before you start to work in PowerPoint. This outline serves as a plan, and gives you insight into how much content you need on any given slide. It will help you to pick the best slide for your content!

  1. Open your presentation outline and review it
  2. Now take a look at the presentation template, keeping an eye out for any of your outline sections that have quite a few bullets or lots of content.
  3. Now create some new slides in PowerPoint, and select some layouts for each slide that you think will work well for your content in your outline.
  4. Now just re-type your copy from your outline into PowerPoint. (Note - pasting copy into PowerPoint is risky, because some formatting could come with it. This happens a lot when copying and pasting from Word. The best thing to do is either retype it in PowerPoint, or use a text editor (like notepad) to strip out any formatting. Then it's safe to paste into PowerPoint without changing PowerPoint's template styling.)

Imagery, Charts & Smart Art

Once your outline has been adapted to fit into layouts in PowerPoint, it's now time for the final touches: imagery, charts, and Smart Art objects!

Images

Want to replace some images? Just hop over to the Template Images Page and get a complete breakdown of what is customizable on every slide, plus links to sample images.

Template Images »

Charts

Need to display some data? Take a look at the Charts Resources Page and get help on handling charts in PowerPoint including how to re-color them if you create a new chart.

Charts Resources »

Smart Art

Sometimes a PowerPoint Smart Art object is perfect for your data. Get help on styling and get some pre-styled Smart Art objects, so all you have to do is plug in your data.

Smart Art Resources »

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