I have slides that have a title box, a subtitle box, and then a third body of
text slide. I can only see what is in the first two boxes in the outline
view. How do I get ALL of the text from all of the boxes into the outline
view
Not possible, I'm afraid. Every slide can have a title that appears in the
outline view, but after that there can be either a subtitle OR a body text
placeholder but not both. The the fact that the text is in a placeholder is
what determines whether or not it appears in the outline.
or exported to a Word or even text file?
Possibly via macros but ...
Is it possible to combine two
boxes to get the third into the outline view?
This looks more promising.
Consider formatting your first-level body text to *look* like a subtitle
(appropriate size, style, indents and space after paragraph)
That might be just the trick.
You'd then have to remember to type new slide body text into the outliner like
so:
Subtitle goes here[ENTER]
[TAB]First-level bullet point (actually second level but it LOOKS like
1st)[ENTER]
Another pseudo-first level point[ENTER]
[TAB]Second level point
Actually, this seems like such a useful thing that I've added this to the
PPTFAQ:
Creating "Pseudo-Subtitles"
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00769.htm
It explains it in more detail and has a link to a sample PPT you can play with.
Give it a look and let us know what you think.
