Sections in MS PowerPoint 2010

It is very all to easy to lose you place in a large MS PowerPoint presentation especially in a collaborative project. Fortunately In MS Office 2010 Microsoft has created the capacity to group slides into sections for the first time.

MS PowerPoint 2010 allows the grouping of slides into different categories like Introduction, part 1, Part 2, Conclusion. Allowing the author(s) to organize and arrange slides into sections to easily manage them.

Adding a Section to a PowerPoint 2010 Presentation

Sections can be added from the ‘Add Section’ button from the Slides section found on the Home ribbon. As an alternative you can also right click on a slide and select ‘Add Section’ from the context sensitive menu that appears.

Manipulating sections in PowerPoint 2010

The  Slides Panel View  allows the user to view a section once created. It is possible to  Rename  and rearrange sections by dragging up or down with the Mouse . The same view facilitates collapsing or expanding a section.

This is a improvement on previous version  on organizing your presentation by grouping related slides within one section. Whilst this feature allows for ease of finding, printing and editing slides this option  is not compatible with creating custom screen shows comprising of different sections.

To summarize Sections are like  folders to organize your files. You could even  assign sections to colleagues  to clarify who is editing which section of a large presentation.

We have established that Sections can be printed. But not synchronized  set up as a Custom Slideshow. As a good alternative sections can be hidden just as a single slide can be hidden from a screen show..

Detailed Instructions on Creating a PowerPoint 2010 Section

To create a new section in PowerPoint 2010 follow the instructions below.

Select the area between the slides you wish to separate  in the Slide Sorter  View

Ensure that the  Home tab is selected  and click on the Section icon. From the menu appears, select “Add Section”. The section appears as a bar dividing the slides.

Renaming Sections in PowerPoint 2010

Each section starts life as a “Untitled Section”. By default all of the slides after the section name will be automatically part of that section.

To rename the section. Just choose right Click and “Rename Section”.

Expanding and Collapsing Sections

You can right click a section and Choose Collapse All to collapse al sections in the presentation.

With all sections collapsed the section name shows the number of slides in the section automatically to the right. Individual sections can be expanded or collapsed

 

Moving Sections

and sections can easily be dragged into different orders.

Apart from clicking and dragging. The context menu allows you to move sections up or down.

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