Microsoft Office Step by Step (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

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Create and manage slides

In this chapter

• Add and remove slides

• Apply themes

• Change slide backgrounds

• Divide presentations into sections

• Rearrange slides and sections

Most newly created PowerPoint presentations contain only a title slide, to which you add more slides. You can create slides based on slide templates designed to hold specific types of content, or you can copy existing slides from other presentations.

You can change the appearance of a presentation or individual slides by applying a different theme or theme variant or by changing one or more slide backgrounds.

When the presentation you’re developing includes a lot of slides, it can be useful to organize them into sections. Sections are not visible to the audience, but they make ...