When it comes to designing our own multimedia presentations , both for home and professional environments or related to education, PowerPoint is an excellent alternative. The program is part of the Microsoft Office suite and has a multitude of functions and modes of use. In these lines we are going to show you how to create an index in a simple way with the application.
In the event that we have a multimedia presentation of considerable dimensions and made up of many slides, these indexes can be very helpful. Therefore and as you can imagine, the elements to which we refer can help us to make projects of this type more professional or better structured. While Word has its own function for this type of task, here in PowerPoint we will have to do it by hand. To do this we use various features integrated into the program.
Create an index with the titles of the slides
Well, if we need to create an index of our PowerPoint presentation , the first thing we do is open the program in the conventional way and start working. Once we have designed all the slides that will make up the project, we are going to carry out what we are looking for here. The first step will be to go to the View / Scheme View menu option, where we will see that all the headlines of the slides that we have created appear. At that moment we will have the possibility to copy all those headlines through the CTRL + C key combination.
Next, we go back to normal view mode and select the slide where we want to insert the table of contents itself. This is something we achieve from the Start menu option of the main interface of PowerPoint. On the left side we will see a drop-down list that appears when you click on the Paste button. here we select the Paste Special and we are going to add the previously copied titles of the slides as RTF text .
PowerPoint Link feature to associate slides
As we mentioned before, although the Microsoft presentation program does not have a specific function to create indexes, we will do it anyway. This is something that we are going to achieve through the function called Links that integrates the application itself. These links that we are going to create manually will help us to associate each of the headlines with its corresponding slide.
Therefore, the first thing we do is mark the first headline that we copied previously and that will act as an index, for example, for the first slide. Once the headline has been marked, we go to Insert link, the button on which we click. At that moment, a new window will appear on the screen for us to select the content we want to call.
Taking into account that we are now interested in linking a project slide , in the left panel we click on Place of this document. So now we can see the different slides that are part of our work and thus select the corresponding one that we want to link to the highlighted headline.
This is something that we will have to repeat with each of the index entries that we are generating. In the presentation as such, when we run it, we can click on that index to directly access the linked slides.
