Microsoft Office Inside Out: 2013 Edition

Chapter 18. Inside PowerPoint 2013

What’s in a PowerPoint presentation?

Working in an appropriate view

Creating and editing a presentation

Saving and sharing a presentation

Adding graphics, video, and audio

Customizing your presentation’s design

EASY TO USE, hard to master. That’s been the story of PowerPoint since its earliest days. Anyone can create a simple slide show. How hard is it, after all, to double-click the PowerPoint icon and then click and type inside a box that tells you to do just that? But creating an engaging presentation that doesn’t lull your audience to sleep takes more than mere pointing, clicking, and typing.

In PowerPoint 2013, slides are still the basic building blocks of a presentation. You can still add bullet points, charts, ...