Each section needs a title at the top, and the title should be on its own line. The title will then become the title of that section’s PowerPoint slide. For example, let’s say the first page of your Word document contains sales information that you’d like to appear on a PowerPoint slide called “Sales. " At the top of that section, you’d type “Sales” as the title, since you want that to be the name of your slide. Below that would be the content of the slide. [1] X Trustworthy Source Microsoft Support Technical support and product information from Microsoft. Go to source Press Enter or Return after each section so there’s at least one empty line between the end of a section and the title of the next slide.

If you don’t see style examples on the toolbar, click the Styles menu to view them.

If you don’t see style examples on the toolbar, click the Styles menu to view them.

Once you change the first title to “Header 1,” go through the rest of your document and do the same with other slide titles. You’ll want all of the titles to be set to this style so they’ll convert properly.

Make sure you have at least one blank line between the title and the rest of the page’s content.

In the content area, press the Enter or Return key to add space between every block of text you want separated on the slide. Every individual line or paragraph will be a different bullet on your final slide.

Text formatted with “Heading 2” Text formatted with “Heading 3”

If you delete the spaces between lines or try to add new text, it may not be formatted correctly, so always do this step last.

Close Word when you’re finished so there are no conflicts with PowerPoint in the remaining steps.

Close Word when you’re finished so there are no conflicts with PowerPoint in the remaining steps.

Close Word when you’re finished so there are no conflicts with PowerPoint in the remaining steps.

Close Word when you’re finished so there are no conflicts with PowerPoint in the remaining steps.

Close Word when you’re finished so there are no conflicts with PowerPoint in the remaining steps.

Every title you set to “Header 1” appears on its own slide, along with its corresponding content, which you set to “Header 2. " You can now design the slides however you’d like using all of your favorite PowerPoint tools. Word will not automatically convert images for you—you will have to manually add the images into your presentation.