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Presentation Basics PowerPoint includes all the features you need to produce professional-looking presentations. When you create a PowerPoint presentation, it is made up of a series of slides. The slides contain the information you want to communicate with your audience. This information can include text, pictures, charts, video, sound, and more. Creating New PresentationsWatch the video! (Part 1) (5:04 min) (Part 2) (6:08 min) - Tips for watching our videos. New PresentationsWhen you open PowerPoint from the Start menu or from an icon on your desktop, a new presentation with one slide appears by default. You can also create a new presentation while PowerPoint is already open.
The New Presentation dialog box will appear. Blank presentation is selected by default.
The default slide that appears when you create a new presentation is a Title Slide layout. Slide BasicsAbout the SlidesSlides contain placeholders, or areas on a slide that are enclosed by dotted borders. Placeholders can contain many different items including text, pictures, and charts. Some placeholders have placeholder text, or text that you can replace, and thumbnail-sized icons that represent specific commands such as Insert Picture, Insert Chart, and Insert Clip Art. Hover over each icon to see the type of information you can insert. About Slide LayoutsThe placeholders are arranged in different layouts that you can select when you insert a new slide or that can be applied to existing slides. In the example above, the layout is called Title and Content and includes title and content placeholders. Slide Basics (cont.)
To Insert Text into a Placeholder:
When you enter text or use the icons to insert items, the placeholder text and/or icons disappear as soon as you start typing.
To Insert a New Slide:
To Change the Layout of an Existing Slide:
Working with SlidesTo Copy and Paste a Slide:
You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl and C to copy the slide and Ctrl and V to paste it. To Delete a Slide:
You can also delete a slide by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard. To Move a Slide:
Using Different Views from the PowerPoint WindowIn the bottom, right corner of the PowerPoint window are three view commands. From here, you can change the view to Normal, Slide Sorter, or Slide Show view by just clicking a command. Normal is the default view and where you will create and edit your slides in the center slide pane and all the slides will appear on the slides tab in the left task pane. Slide Sorter is a view of your slides in thumbnail form. The slides are presented horizontally, which allows you to see more slides at a time. Slide Show view fills the computer screen with your presentation so you can see how the presentation will appear to the audience. Saving Your PresentationIf you are saving a document for the first time, you will need to use the Save As command; however, if you have already saved a presentation, you can use the Save command. To Use the Save As Command:
To Use the Save Command:
Using the Save command saves the document in its current location using the same file name. Challenge!
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