In This Chapter:

Slides and Placeholders

A slide is like a digital card or a single word processing page in a document, on which you can place your text, graphics, charts, and other items.

The First Slide

Now we show you how to create the first slide to start your presentation.

Inserting a New Slide

Now that you've created your first slide and started your presentation, we'll show you how to add new slides to it.

Changing Slide Order

But can you change the sequence of the slides, and rearrange the presentation? This is easy and here we show you several ways to do that.

Splitting Body Text onto Two Slides

If you have too much text to fit in it's text area on the current slide, you can have Powerpoint split the text up and display the second part of it on a new slide.

Duplicating Slides within a Presentation

These are inserted directly below the slides you have selected.

Adding and Deleting Slides

You can define custom slide shows and add or choose whatever slides you want to show in it.

Hiding a Slide

You can exclude slides from your presentation by hiding them.

Zooming in or Out on a Slide

You can zoom in the view of a slide to get a closer look at what you're working on.

Sending Slides to MS Word

You can embed slides or link them to Word documents.