Use PowerPoint Zoom summary for more dynamic presentations

Most common Microsoft PowerPoint presentations make a straight line from the first slide to the last. It's a bit predictable and boring. But great presentations, like great stories, shouldn't be forced to follow a linear path from slide to slide.

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How the zoom summary works in Microsoft PowerPoint

This is how PowerPoint describes Summary Zoom:The freedom to jump from any slide to any other slide and vice versa helps you add more interactivity to your presentations. It's like the main table of contents where you can go from one place in your presentation to another in any order you like. Zoom for Microsoft PowerPoint is only available to Office 365 subscribers and only on Windows.

This is how you can configure it:

1. When your slides are ready, go to Ribbon> Insert> Zoom .
2. From the drop-down menu, select Zoom Summary.
3. the Summary Zoom Insert The dialog will open and ask you to select the slides you want to zoom in on.
   
4. Once you've selected the slides on the right, click Insert button.
5. The Zoom Summary slide will be created, and will appear as a new slide placed just before the first slide you included in your Zoom Summary. Enter a title for this slide and save your presentation.
   

Go to the Slides View and use Summary Zoom to take your audience through the key parts of the presentation. You can weave a little story with the selected slides in the Summary Zoom. You can ignore the other slides in between that don't need to be part of your narrative. The Zoom Summary feature helps you create a smoother slideshow and explain it better.