Have you ever worked with a larger PowerPoint presentation, and wished for a way to organize your slides into groups? PowerPoint 2010 introduced a long-awaited feature: sections.
One of the features I have appreciated about developing e-learning projects in Adobe Captivate is the ability to group the slides so that I can easily organize, navigate among, and manipulate them. By chunking the slides into groups such as “introduction,” “demonstration,” “simulation,” and “assessment,” I could easily see the big picture and work more efficiently.
PowerPoint 2010 introduced this functionality as “sections.” Using sections you can easily organize your slides into meaningful groups.
Using the Filmstrip in Normal View, or in Slide Sorter view, simply right-click the slide that would be the first one in the section. A shortcut menu appears, and one choice is “Add Section.” Clicking that option adds a divider that says “Untitled Section.”
Right clicking this new divider brings up a different shortcut menu with options such as renaming and removing the section. Clicking the caret next to the section name allows you to expand/collapse the section – giving you control over which slides you see, and facilitating navigation and organization.