How do i create a powerpoint presentation?

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Starting Microsoft PowerPoint Two Ways Double click on the Microsoft PowerPoint icon on the desktop. Click on Start --> Programs --> Microsoft PowerPoint Back to top Creating & Opening a Presentation After you open up Microsoft PowerPoint, a screen pops up asking if you would like to create a New Presentation or Open An Existing Presentation. AutoContent Wizard Creates a new presentation by prompting you for information about content, purpose, style, handouts, and output. The new presentation contains sample text that you can replace with your own information. Simply follow the directions and prompts that are given by Microsoft PowerPoint. Design Template Creates a new presentation based on one of the PowerPoint design templates supplied by Microsoft. Use what is already supplied by Microsoft PowerPoint and change the information to your own. Blank Presentation Creates a new, blank presentation using the default settings for text and colors. Go to next step: Creating A Blank Presentation Back to top Opening An Existing Presentation Select Open An Existing Presentation from the picture above Click on your presentation in the white box below step 1 If you do not see your presentation in the white box, select More Files and hit OK. Locate you existing Presentation and hit the Open button Back to top Create a Blank Presentation After you select Blank Presentation a window pops up asking you to select the layout of the first slide. Pre-Designed Slide Layouts (Left to Right) Title Slide Bulleted List Two Column Text Table Text & Chart Chart & Text Organizational Chart Chart Text & Clip Art Clip Art & Text Title Only Blank Slide NOTE:If you already know what you want in your next slide, it is a very good idea to choose one of the pre-designed layouts from above. However if you do not, then you can still insert what you want in throughout your Presentation anytime you desire. Just choose Blank Slide and insert items as you see fit. Back to top Different Views That PowerPoint Demonstrates There are different views within Microsoft PowerPoint that allow you to look at your presentation from different perspectives. Normal View Outline View Slide View Slide Sorter View Slide Show View Switches to normal view, where you can work on one slide at a time or organize the structure of all the slides in your presentation Switches to outline view, where you can work with the structure of your file in outline form. Work in outline view when you need to organize the structure of your file. Switches to slide view, where you can work on one slide at a time Displays miniature versions of all slides in a presentation, complete with text and graphics. In slide sorter view, you can reorder slides, add transitions, and animation effects. You can also set the timings for electronic slide shows. Runs your slide show in a full screen, beginning with the current slide if you are in slide view or the selected slide if you are in slide sorter view. If you simply want to view your show from the first slide: Click Slide Show at the top of the screen Select View Show Back to top Slide Manipulation Inserting A New Slide Click Insert at top of screen Select New Slide . Formatting A Slide Background You can format your slide to make it look however you would like, whether it be a background color, picture, or a design template built into Microsoft PowerPoint. The next step will show you how to apply a Design Template, but the other items mentioned above can be accomplished the same way. Click Format at the top of the screen Select Apply Design Template Select Design you wish to apply Click Apply Button Inserting Clipart & Pictures Display the slide you want to add a picture to. Click Insert at the top of the screen Select Picture Select Clip Art Click the category you want Click the picture you want Click Insert Clip on the shortcut menu When you are finished using the Clip Gallery, click the Close button on the Clip Gallery title bar Steps 1-4 are very similar when inserting other Pictures, Objects, Movies, Sounds, and Charts Back to top Adding Transitions to a Slide Show You can add customized transitions to your slide show that will make it come alive and become appealing to your audience. Follow these steps when adding Slide Transitions. In slide or slide sorter view, select the slide or slides you want to add a transition to. On the Slide Show menu at the top of the screen, click Slide Transition In the Effect box, click the transition you want, and then select any other options you want To apply the transition to the selected slide, click Apply. To apply the transition to all the slides, click Apply to All. Repeat the process for each slide you want to add a transition to. To view the transitions, on the Slide Show menu, click Animation Preview. Back to top Viewing The Slide Show You can view your slide show by any of the following ways: Click Slide Show at the lower left of the PowerPoint window. On the Slide Show menu, click View Show. On the View menu, click Slide Show. Press F5 on the keyboard Back to top Navigating While In Your Slide Show Forward Navigation Simply click on the left Mouse Button or hit the Enter Button on your keyboard Reverse Navigation Hit the Backspace on the keyboard Exiting the show Hit the Esc Button on the keyboard Back to top Pack up a presentation for use on another computer Open the Presentation you want to pack On the File menu, click Pack and Go Follow the instructions in the Pack and Go Wizard. Unpack a presentation to run on another computer Insert the disk or connect to the network location you packed the presentation to In My Computer, go to the location of the packed presentation, and then double-click Pngsetup Enter the destination you want to copy the presentation to

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start powerpoint application and press 'F1'. That's the best way to start. That's the reason Microsoft took time to create the 'help function'

Hi Life_vamp! Thanks for asking this question because I have my first one to do for a graduate course. Loads of thanks to everyone who offered constructive help and links, too. Loads of thumbs up all the way round! This is why Yahoo Answers is of such great value! Charles "That Cheeky Lad"

u can create a powerpoint presentation by using a software named microsoft powerpoint which is available in ms office,this comes in a cd which can be available in any computer outlets and if u install tht. by opening the powerpoint u can understand easily to create the presentation or else u can refer to power point presentation books availble

First you need a powerpoint program. I suggest Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2003. The program is very straight forward. Most of the tools that you will need to edit your slides are in the Side Show drop down menu on the toolbar. That will help you add details such as transitions and color. In the spaces provided you type in your infortmation. Before you begin I recommand that you just play around with the program to see all of your options. I think it would be difficult to screw something up. Once you begin inputing your data, save your work every time you complete something that you don't want deleted. This way if you do do something and don't know how to undo, close the program without saving an open up the presentation where you left off. You can also purchase PP guides at Staples and Chapters. They are only one page, they price around $10.99...

use one of the wizards to get you started once you have the basics u can then tart it up

Firstly, select a new blank page. You will notice that you can not type text directly onto the page. You will need to open a text box (There should be a menu at the bottom with the text box icon on it.). You can write normally, or use 1 text box per line, if you want to do some animation. Pictures etc can also be inserted. To insert more slides, go to Insert and select New Slide. To have text apear or disapear,Custom Animation. Click on Entrance or Exit and select an animation theme. Press OK. This should give you some simple effects and page set up, enough to produce a simple show. Most things are the same as for Word etc. So you can insert pictures, or add Hyperlinks in the same manner. Good luck