Chapter 1: Starting with PowerPoint Basics
Discover PowerPoint basics such as creating, saving, and closing a presentation. Each presentation you build exists in its own separate PowerPoint file. After showing you how to create a new presentation, this chapter teaches you how to find and open existing presentation files.
Introducing PowerPoint
Start PowerPoint and Explore the Start Screen
Start a New Presentation
Search for Templates Online
Save a Presentation
Find a Presentation
Open an Existing Presentation
Close a Presentation
Delete a Presentation
Introducing PowerPoint
With PowerPoint, you can create a professional-looking slide show. The PowerPoint program provides tools you can use to build presentations that include graphics, media, animations, and an assortment of ways to transition from slide to slide. It provides various views and user interfaces to suit your particular needs. These PowerPoint tools enable you to design and build a quality presentation. Many tasks start in Backstage view. To access this view, click the File tab on the ribbon.
Build an Outline
You can type text in outline form to build slides for your presentation. In the Outline view, an icon represents each slide, and each slide contains a slide title next to the icon. Second-level lines of text on the outline appear as bullet points on the slide. These bullets convey the main points you want to make about each topic.
Choose a Slide Design and Layout
A slide design applies preset design elements such as colors, background graphics, and text styles to a slide. A particular slide layout applied to a slide determines what type of information that slide includes. For example, a Title Slide layout has a title and subtitle. A Title and Content layout includes a title, plus a placeholder that holds a list of bullet points, a table, or other graphic elements.
Add Content
You can add conten...