2. Creating a Basic Presentation

After you learn—or refresh your memory—about how to navigate PowerPoint, you can create a basic presentation. This chapter gets you up and running on presentation basics so that you can quickly move forward to more advanced and sophisticated PowerPoint techniques.

Understanding PowerPoint Presentations

Before you start creating your first PowerPoint presentation, you need to understand themes, templates, and slide layouts, which are the presentation building blocks.

A theme and a template are not too different. Whereas a theme ...

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