Automate your summary, sections and appendices to structure your presentation in a smart way using our automatic Table of Contents. This feature will also ensure compliance with your corporate identity.

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Important

Before using the automatic Table of Contents feature, make sure your presentation has been created from an UpSlide template otherwise this feature won't work as expected. See our article Accessing your on-brand templates through UpSlide for more information.

Insert a Table of Contents

To add a contents page in your presentation, go to Insert button on the UpSlide tab and select Insert Table of Contents from the drop-down menu.

The contents page will be inserted as a new slide after the one currently selected, displaying the items in your presentation. These items could be sections, subsections, slides, slide indexes, or other... the content depends of what has been set for your template.

If the contents of the presentation do not fit in a single slide, the Table of Contents will automatically be split into additional slides or into a two column contents page.

Only one Table of Contents can be inserted per presentation. If a contents page has already been added, clicking the Insert Table of Contents button simply takes you to this slide.

Structure your presentation with sections and subsections

Dividing a presentation into sections with UpSlide

Sections in UpSlide are materialized by a divider slide (also called section divider), marking the beginning of the section. The divider slide is completely customized to your template, but it generally contains a summary of the contents of the section: name and number of the section, titles and indexes of the slides within the section, etc.

To add a section divider:

Click between the slides (in the thumbnail pane) where you would like your divider to go and your section to start.
In the UpSlide tab, click Insert (next to the Slide Check button) or press Ctrl+Shift+S.
A pop up appears. Type the name of your section, and select OK or hit Enter.

Once you do this, a section divider will be inserted and the Table of Contents slide will be updated. At step three you also have the possibility to insert the section as unnumbered section and/or as an appendix. Depending on your template, creating the section as an appendix might remove the section name from the contents page.

Tip

You can remove the section from the presentation by deleting the divider slide. You can also create a new section by copy pasting or duplicating the divider slide. Those two actions can alternatively be executed using the Outline pane.

Inserting subsections

Subsections can be added in addition to sections to help structuring the presentation. Depending on your template:

Subsections are deactivated.
Subsections use a divider slide and are handled exactly the same way as sections.
Subsections do not have a divider slide, but can be used to edit the content of the automatic subsection trackers on the slides (see paragraph below about Automatic trackers / reminder shapes).

To add a subsection:

Click between the slides (in the thumbnail pane) where you would like your subsection to start.
Go to Insert button on the UpSlide tab and select Insert Subsection from the drop-down menu.
A pop up appears. Type the name of your subsection, and select OK or hit Enter.

If UpSlide refuses to insert a subsection you will need to add the subsection from the Outline pane (explained in the next paragraph).

Rename sections and restructure your presentation using the Outline pane

The Outline pane shows an overview of your presentation and one way to change section names. To open the Outline pane and edit the structure of your presentation:

Go to UpSlide tab and click the Outline button. This should open a pane on the right, displaying the sections, subsections and slides of the presentations opened in your computer.
To go to a particular slide/section, just double click on it.
To change the name of a section, right click on the section name you want to change within the pane. Select Rename, type the new name and press Enter. You cannot rename a section directly on the slide.
To insert a (sub)section, right click on a slide within the pane, select Insert and then Section or Subsection. The (sub)section will be inserted just before the slide.
To reorder a (sub)section, click on the object on your Outline pane and drag it to where you would like it to go. This will reorder the entire section including all the slides associated with it.
To remove a (sub)section, click on the object on your Outline pane and select Remove. This will delete the (sub)section from the presentation but not the slides within it.

Do not forget to refresh the presentation to apply your changes to all your slides (see Refresh the content page paragraph).

Tip

You may be able to rename sections directly on a divider slide and press refresh - your contents page will update too!

Automatic trackers / reminder shapes

In addition to divider slides, UpSlide also can insert a reminder of the title and number of the (sub)section for each slide. These reminders work as automatic trackers, and their position and exact content depend on your template.

They are automatically inserted and updated when the presentation is refreshed.

Tip

To switch these reminders off open the Outline pane and select the whole presentation by clicking the name of the presentation. Then click on Show Properties at the bottom and untick Display Reminders.

Refresh the contents page, section dividers and cross references

After editing the structure of your presentation, go to the UpSlide tab and click the Refresh button to make sure your presentation is up to date. This will update:

Sections, subsections and slides names across the presentation (including contents page, Outline pane as well as every slide of the presentation).
The reminder shapes if they exist in your template.
Any cross-references included in the presentation.

User Guide

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Adding sections and a Table of Contents