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When you work in Outline view you have to select an entire slide

This can be done in a number of ways:

1) Click the Slide icon

2) Click the Slide number

3) Triple click anywhere in the slide's title

When you select an entire slide the slide title and the body text and highlighted

In addition any extra objects such as charts and pictures are also selected

You can select an edit an entire paragraph along with all its subordinate paragraphs.

Adding a new Slide

Because the outline focuses on slide content rather than on layout, new slides receive the basic Bulleted List layout, which includes title text and body text formatted with bullets.

You can also use the shortcut key (Ctrl + M) to quickly insert a new slide.

SS - with a new blank slide

Adding a new Bullet Point

To add a new paragraph to a slide by using the outline that appears in the Outline pane. Move the cursor to the end of the paragraph and press Enter.

A new paragraph will be created at the same level as the preceding paragraph. If the slide only has a title then this will create a new slide.

If you position the cursor at the beginning of a paragraph and press Enter, the new paragraph is inserted to the left of the cursor position.

Place the cursor anywhere in a slide's body and press (Ctrl + Enter).

This method creates a new slide immediately following the current slide.

The position of the cursor within the existing slide doesn't matter; the new slide is always created after the current slide. (The cursor must be in the slide's body text, however in order for this method to work.

If you put the cursor in a slide title and press (Ctrl + Enter), the cursor jumps to the slide's body text without creating a new slide.

If you press Enter at the end of any slide in Outline view you can promote back to the Slide Title level where a new slide will be created.

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