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Creating a Summary Slide in PowerPoint 2002

Date:Friday, August 12 2005

A nifty feature that was first introduced in PowerPoint 97 and is still around is the Summary Slide button, which automatically creates a summary slide that shows the titles of some or all the slides in your presentation.

To use the Summary Slide feature, follow these steps:

1. Select the slides whose titles you want to appear on the summary slide.

To include the entire presentation, press Ctrl+A to select all the slides.

2. Click the Summary Slide button. You can find the Summary Slide button on the Outlining toolbar.

If the Outlining toolbar is not visible, summon it by choosing View-->
Toolbars-->Outlining.

A summary slide is created at the beginning of the selected slides, as shown in Figure 1.

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Figure 1: A summary slide in all its glory.

3. Type a title for the summary slide.

Unless, of course, you like the boring title "Summary Slide."