PowerPoint 2013 Bible, 4th Edition

Chapter 2

Creating and Saving Presentation Files

In This Chapter

Starting a new presentation

Saving your work

Setting passwords for file access

Closing and reopening presentations

Setting file properties

If you're an experienced Windows and PowerPoint user, starting new presentations and saving files may be second nature to you. If so—great! You may not need this chapter. On the other hand, if you aren't entirely certain about some of the finer points, such as saving in different formats or locations, stick around.

Even people who consider themselves “advanced” users may benefit from this chapter because it looks at some of the unique advanced saving features of Office applications and explains how to secure files with passwords.

Starting a New Presentation

You can start a blank presentation, or you can base the new presentation on a template or on another presentation. Using a template or existing presentation can save you some time. However, if you have a specific vision you're going for, starting a presentation from scratch gives you a clean canvas to work from.

Starting a Blank Presentation

When you open PowerPoint, a Start screen appears. From here you can click Blank Presentation, as shown in Figure 2.1, or you can just press Esc at the Start screen to access a blank presentation.

Figure 2.1 Use the Blank Presentation tile on PowerPoint's Start screen to start a new presentation.

If you want to start a blank presentation at some time other than when you start up PowerPoint, ...