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Create PowerPoint Presentations Using Text Editors

By Wendy Russell, About.com

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Open the Text File in PowerPoint Once Again

Open the text file in PowerPoint to view bulleted text on PowerPoint slides

Open the text file in PowerPoint to view bulleted text on PowerPoint slides

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Let's Look at the Changes

  1. Once again, open your version of PowerPoint.

  2. Open the text file you created in Notepad or other text editor.

Note that all the text you adjusted in Notepad is now a bullet point under each appropriate slide heading.

Now that the outline of your presentation is created, you can now begin to add other aspects to jazz it up, such as -

These are just a few of the enhancements you can add to your PowerPoint presentations. For further tutorials check out -

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