Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Chapter 2. Creating a Basic Presentation

Patrice-Anne Rutledge

In this chapter

• Understanding PowerPoint Presentations 30

• Creating a Presentation 31

• Saving a Presentation 34

• Opening a Presentation 37

• Deleting a Presentation 39

• Renaming a Presentation 40

• Converting a Presentation to PowerPoint 2007 40

• Troubleshooting 41

• Design Corner: Creating a Presentation from Scratch 41

Understanding PowerPoint Presentations

After you learn—or refresh your memory of—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.

Before you start, though, it helps to understand templates and slide layouts, which are presentation ...