When you start the PowerPoint program, it displays the default design for a title slide. You can use the existing layout or change it to any layout you want. Then you add your text or other content, and keep adding slides and content as you develop your presentation.
If you need to use settings for your slides other than the standard default size and orientation, on the Design tab, click the Page Setup button to display the Page Setup dialog box, change your settings, and click OK.
Point to the various themes to preview the way your slides will look with each theme. Click the theme you want to apply to all the slides in your presentation.
Click the Background Styles button, and, in the gallery that appears, point to the different styles to preview the effect each has on your slides. Click the style you want.
Click in a text box and add your text. Use the tools on the Home tab and the Drawing Tools Format tab to modify any text or paragraph formatting. If there are other text boxes, click in each, and add and format your text.- When you’re ready to create the next slide, click the bottom part of the New Slide button, and, in the gallery that appears, select the layout you want for the new slide.
- If you don’t like the current layout, click the Layout button and choose a different layout for the slide.
- If your slide contains content boxes, either type the text you want, or click one of the buttons to add a table, a chart, a SmartArt graphic, a picture, a piece of clip art, or a media clip.
Continue clicking the bottom part of the New Slide button, selecting the layout you want for each slide, and adding content to each slide until your presentation is complete.
See Also
"Inserting Pictures", "Adding Shapes", "Adding Clip Art", "Creating Stylized Text", and "Inserting a Relational Diagram" for information about inserting these elements into your slide presentation.
See Also
"Using Word to Prepare PowerPoint Text" for information about using a Word document for PowerPoint content.