How to Make Presentations Using PowerPoint
Whether you're standing in front of a room of 100, broadcasting across the Web to thousands or creating a downloadable file for a single person, an ideal way to compile information, data and graphics electronically is through a PowerPoint slide show. PowerPoint, the presentation component of the Microsoft Office Suite, offers an interface to create click-by-click presentations for just about any topic, with menus and toolbars users of the Office Suite will be familiar with. Make a presentation in PowerPoint and get right to the point.
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Open PowerPoint. The software defaults to a single slide, blank presentation. Click into the "Click to add title" box and type the title of the presentation. Click into the "Click to add subtitle" box and add a subtitle, presenter's name, location, date or other information. Remove a text box entirely by clicking it and pressing the "Delete" key on the keyboard.
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Create the main design of the presentation by clicking the "View" tab at the top of the screen and selecting the "Slide Master" button. The main screen will change to the master slide. This slide doesn't actually appear in the presentation, but it governs how the presentation looks.
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Click the "Themes" button in the middle of the ribbon/toolbar at the top of the screen. Choose one of the themes for the slide show and all of the slides will change to that selection.
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Click the "Insert" tab at the top of the screen. Click "Picture." Browse to a company or organization logo. Double-click the file and it will appear on the slide. Drag it into place, such as a corner of the slide. This is an ideal way to "brand" the presentation without having to add the logo to every slide.
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Click the "Close Master View" button on the ribbon/toolbar at the top of the screen. Now you're back to the actual presentation, where changes affect slides on a slide-by-slide basis.
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Click the "New Slide" button on the "Home" tab to add a second slide to the presentation deck. Click into the "Click to add title" header and type the header of the slide.
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Add text to the slide by clicking the "Click to add text" box and typing. Press the "Enter" button on the keyboard to add a new bulleted line.
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Add images to the slide, such as photographs or blueprints, by clicking the "Insert" tab, selecting "Picture," browsing to the image and double-clicking it.
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Click the "Home" tab and "New Slide" button to continue adding slides to the presentation as needed.
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Click the "File" tab at the top of the screen and select "Save As." Type a name for the PowerPoint presentation and save it to the computer.
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