Adding a Summary Slide

A summary slide contains the slide titles of selected slides in the presentation. You automatically create a summary slide by using the Summary Slide button Summary slide button image on the Slide Sorter toolbar when in Slide Sorter view.

Practice: Creating a Summary Slide:

  1. Click the Slide Sorter View button Adding a Summary Slide on the View toolbar to view your presentation in Slide Sorter View.
  2. Close the Task Pane so you can see more of the slides in the Slide Sorter Pane.
  3. Select all the slides except the first and last ones by clicking Slide 2, pressing and holding the Shift key, and clicking Slide 7. The selected slides have dark boxes around each of them.
  4. Click the Summary Slide button Adding a Summary Slide on the Slide Sorter toolbar.  This creates a new Slide 2 with the title "Summary Slide" and bulleted items of the titles of the selected slides.
  5. Adding a Summary Slide

  6. Move Slide 2 to the end of your presentation by dragging it to the right of slide 9 and then return to Normal View to view and edit the Summary Slide (the new Slide 9).
  7. In Slide 9, delete "Slide" so the title becomes "Summary." See the figure below.
  8. Adding a Summary Slide

  9. Check the spelling of your presentation by clicking the Spelling icon Check Spelling icon image on the Standard toolbar. Click Ignore All for proper nouns like "HelpDesk" and "BamaMail."
  10. Save your presentation and go on to the next section on Inserting Hyperlinks and Action Buttons.

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