How to Create PowerPoint from Text

Quick summary

This demo shows how to create a PowerPoint presentation from a text file using the Slides from Outline feature in Microsoft PowerPoint. Instead of building slides manually, you can import a structured text outline and let PowerPoint generate slides and bullet points automatically.

Steps

1. Go to the Home tab in PowerPoint.
2. Click the small dropdown arrow next to the New Slide button.
3. Select Slides from Outline from the dropdown menu.
4. Select your text file in the file picker dialog.
5. Click Insert to import the outline into PowerPoint.
6. PowerPoint will instantly generate a new slide for every top-level line and place indented lines as bullet points in the body text placeholders.