Automatic table of contents in PowerPoint

You can use an automatic feature to create a table of contents from your PowerPoint slides. However, Microsoft has abolished this since version 2007. We'll show you how to do this for the table of contents instead.

Create a table of contents for PowerPoint

First create all the slides and only then start creating the table of contents. With PowerPoint 2003 you can create a directory via "View"> "Slide sorting"> "Overview slide" or "Content slide". From version 2007 you have to do the individual steps yourself:

1. Switch to the "View" ribbon and open the "Outline view".
2. If you just want to include the headings in your table of contents, right-click in the outline and choose Collapse Outline> Collapse All Levels.
3. Then mark and copy the outline on the left side and create a "New slide" by right-clicking.
4. Now insert the structure using the key combination [Ctrl] + [V]. You can optionally write the number of foils at the end of the line.
5. In the last step, you just have to choose a heading and move the slide to the right place.

In the next article we will show you how to insert videos in PowerPoint and thus loosen up your presentation.