Microsoft® Office 2010 Bible

Chapter 21. Creating a Presentation, Slides, and Text

IN THIS CHAPTER

Starting a new presentation

Saving your work

Closing and reopening presentations

Creating new slides

Inserting content from external sources

Managing slides

Using content placeholders

Creating text boxes manually

Working with text boxes

If you're an experienced Windows and PowerPoint user, starting new presentations and saving files may be second nature to you. If so—great! You may not need this chapter. On the other hand, if you aren't entirely certain about some of the finer points, such as saving in different formats or locations, stick around.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to create, save, and reopen presentation files, and how to build a simple text-based presentation by creating new slides and entering text on them. You'll learn how to import content from other programs, and how to create, size, and position text boxes to hold the text for your presentation.

Starting a New Presentation

You can start a blank presentation from scratch, or you can base the new presentation on a template or on another presentation. Using a template or existing presentation can save you some time. However, if you have a specific vision you're going for, starting a presentation from scratch gives you a clean canvas to work from.

Starting a Blank Presentation from Scratch

When you start PowerPoint, a new blank presentation begins automatically with one slide. Just add your content to it, add more slides if needed, change the formatting (as ...