Quia - Class Page - PowerPoint

Creating a slide from scratch
In the next step you will create a Title Slide for your presentation using the Blank Presentation template. You will be working in Slide View.

1. Open the PowerPoint program. Powerpoint automatically opens a new presentation. A new title slide will appear for you to work with.

2. Alternatively, let's say you are already working in Powerpoint and want to create a new presentation. In the Open window, click the Microsoft Office Button. From the drop-down list, select New.

3. The New window will appear. Blank and recent is automatically highlighted in the list of options on the left. Click Create. A new Blank Presentation template will open with a new Title Slide in the Slide Layout (Normal) view.

4. If you don't want the Title Slide layout, you can easily change it to one of the other available layouts. In the Slides Group in the Home tab, click the arrow in the Layout button. All the slide layouts you can choose from will appear. Click on whichever one you want to use. The slide layout is now changed.

Adding text to a slide
The Title Slide layout contains text boxes for a title and a subtitle. Try typing text into these boxes.

1. Click in the Title text box. A dashed line border with a circle in each corner and a square box at each midpoint appears around the text box indicating that it is selected.

2. Type a title.

3. Click the Subtitle text box and type a subtitle.

Adding another slide

1. In the Slides Group in the Home tab, click on the top part of the New Slide button. A new slide is added which by default is the Title and Content layout slide.

2. Alternatively, to add a new slide with a different layout than the default, click the bottom part of New Slide button with the arrow beside the text, "New Slide". A drop-down list appears with all the slide layouts you can choose from. Click on the layout you want to use. A new slide with that layout is now added.

Moving from slide to slide
Let's say you've created several slides for your presentation. You've finished working on the last slide, and now you want to take a look at your other slides. Here's how you move from slide to slide.