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Office 2016 For Dummies
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Office 2016 For Dummies

by Wallace Wang
October 2015
Beginner
480 pages
9h 3m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 11

Creating a PowerPoint Presentation

In This Chapter

arrow Designing a presentation

arrow Creating a PowerPoint presentation

arrow Using different views to create a presentation

arrow Adding text

PowerPoint works as a visual aid for giving presentations. (If you never give presentations, you probably don’t need PowerPoint.) Instead of fumbling around creating, organizing, and displaying transparencies with an overhead projector, you can use PowerPoint on your computer to create, arrange, and display slides that organize information as text and graphics.

Besides displaying slides on the screen, PowerPoint also lets you add notes and turn your entire slide-show presentation into printed handouts so the audience can review your presentation with a printed copy of each slide. The next time you need to convince or inform an audience, use PowerPoint to create and deliver your presentation. (Just make sure that you never use PowerPoint to propose marriage, though.)

Defining the Purpose of Your Presentation

PowerPoint can make creating and delivering a presentation easy, but before you start creating ...

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