Chapter 15. Working with Slides

A PowerPoint document contains all the items that make up your presentation including text, images, pre-drawn graphics (which PowerPoint calls shapes), and, if you choose to include them, the animations of slide objects and animated transitions between slides.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to modify entire slides in PowerPoint for iPad, how to style text on your slides, how to insert tables and images, and how to insert and work with shapes to help get your presentation’s message across better.

Modifying Slides

When you start PowerPoint, the app assumes that you want to resume what you were doing when you last left the program. So, if you were editing a presentation, you’ll go back to the same slide within ...

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