Adding Content for PowerPoint

The first step in creating a PowerPoint presentation with Flare is to add content, edit styles, and use features that are supported in PowerPoint output. You can customize the content as much as you like. Additionally, you can arrange a table of contents (TOC) comprised of presentation topics, adjust page layout properties, or select target options.

Similar to other types of output, there are a number of ways to create, organize, and design a project for PowerPoint slides. The following points serve as a guideline to help you get started.

• Create content for the presentation You can reuse content from existing topics or you can create content in new topics for PowerPoint output. See Creating Topics.

  You can use features such as lists, images, snippets, QR codes, cross-references, etc. See Supported Features in PowerPoint Output.

  Use stylesheets to add or edit styles and customize the look and feel of the content for your presentation. You can use the default stylesheet or create a new one. See Styles and Stylesheets.

  If your presentation includes tables, you can use existing table styles (or create a new table stylesheet) to format the way they look and behave. See Table Stylesheets.

  

  Note When creating content for a PowerPoint presentation, each "topic" typically equates to a "slide." If a topic is long (i.e., it runs beyond the frame of the slide) it will extend into multiple slides. This can happen depending on a myriad of reasons such as text overflow, font size, spacing between lines, etc. A couple ways to control your content is with reorganizing the topic or with page breaks. You can manually insert page breaks or you can set page breaks on styles. See Setting Page Breaks and Column Breaks and How to Insert a Manual Page Break.

  Note Each element will likely be converted to its own editing box in PowerPoint.

• Add topics to a TOC outline You can add topics to an existing TOC or create a new TOC file if you want. This file serves as an outline for the topics in the PowerPoint output. Simply drag and drop topics from the Content Explorer to the TOC Editor, or use buttons in the local toolbar of the TOC. See Tables of Contents and Adding Print Topics to an Outline TOC.

  

What’s Next?

After you add content to your project and design it as you see fit, the next step is to add a page layout. There are two factory PowerPoint page layout templates to choose from with basic formatting applied. See Adding a Page Layout for PowerPoint.