The Outline view inPowerPoint 2016 for Mac essentially brings up the Outline pane onthe left side of PowerPoint 2016 interface.Note that this now replaces the Slides Pane that shows up inNormal view. Also, any changes you want to make to your outlinecan be made through right-click (or Ctrl+click) options, and we'll show you how you can do so.
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Once you access the Outline view, you typically see the title and textcontent of the slides, as shown in Figure 1. The content shown here replicates what you find in the text placeholders of individual slides.
Figure 1: Outline pane
Tip: You can differentiate a text placeholder from other text boxes very easily:
Remember: The text delete tip that we mention above should be followed with an immediate Undo command(⌘+Z) so that all your existing text is back in the placeholder or the text box! Also, do look at ourText Placeholders vs. Text Boxes in PowerPoint 2016 forMac tutorial to understand these concepts further.
You can use the Outline pane to change bullet hierarchies, promote bullet levels to titles, and the other way around (demote). You canalso reorder the slides, or move bullets from one slide to another fairly quickly. With your text selected, right-click anywhere in theOutline pane to bring up the options in the context menu, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Context menu within Outline pane
The right-click context contains the options are explained below, as marked in Figure 2, above.
These options are simple. Any selected text in the outline can be cut or copied, and thereafter pastedin another section of the outline. The shortcut keys ⌘+X, ⌘+C,and ⌘+V also work for Cut, Copy, and Paste respectively.

The New Slide option inserts a new slide in the Outline pane, at the point where you right-click (or Ctrl+click)to activate the context menu shown in Figure 2, above. For example, if you select slide 2 and choose this option, PowerPoint will inserta new slide between slides 2 and 3.
Select any slide, or even multiple slides and choose the Duplicate Slide (Shift+⌘+D)option to make duplicate slides immediately after your selection.
Select any slide, or even multiple slides and choose the Delete Slide option to delete selected slides. PowerPoint doesn't warn that the selectedslides will be deleted, so be sure before using this option.
You can click the Collapse option to bring up a submenu with the Collapse and Collapse All options.These options hide bulleted text so that only the titles of individual slides are visible. The Collapse option hides the bulleted text relevantto the selected slide (or active slide) whereas Collapse All hides the bulleted text for the outline of the entire presentation.Figure 3 shows the collapsed view of all the slides in the Outline pane.
Figure 3: Collapse All
You can click the Expand option to bring up a submenu with the Expand and Expand All options.The Expand options are the reverse option for Collapse options explained in the preceding section and display any hiddenbulleted text. The Expand option reveals the bulleted text relevant to the selected slide whereas Expand All reveals bulletedtext for the outline of the entire presentation.
Before we get to discuss the Promote and Demote options, let us tellyou few things about how the hierarchy of the Outline works in PowerPoint. Here's a listing from higher to lower:
Title
Bullet Level 1
Bullet Level 2
Bullet Level 3
Bullet Level 4
and so on...

So, if we demoted a Title by one level, it would end up being Bullet Level 1, or a demotedBullet Level 1 will end up being a Bullet Level 2. On the other hand, if you promoteBullet Level 1, you end up with a Title. This also results in a new slide being created!
The Promote option changes the selected text or slide to one level ahead, as explained within the Hierarchy section earlier on this page. Forexample, if Promote is applied to a Bullet Level 1 text, it will be converted to a Title ofa new slide. Demote option is the exact opposite of the Promote option. It demotes (or reduces thehierarchy by one level of) the selected text/title to the lower level, applying that level's style and formatting.
The shortcut keys Tab and Shift+Tab work for Demote and Promote respectively.
These options move the selected text/title up or down so that it appears before or after the previous item in the Outline pane. The text ortitle is moved up or down without making any changes to its hierarchy though.
This shows the actual font formatting on the Outline pane. There's an unexpected bonus result of this action. The Notes pane also shows text formatting if you choose this option!
This option allows you to add a hyperlink to any selected text in outline tab. Personally, we prefer doingthis sort of stuff on the slide itself rather than the Outline Pane, but that's just our opinion.