This full guide to Microsoft Powerpoint will take you through all of the basic steps in creating and editing your own slideshows and show you some of the more advanced features for creating exciting presentations.

In This Guide:

01 - Microsoft PowerPoint Basics

In this chapter, we start you off by covering what Powerpoint is, what it is useful for and we show you how to start Powerpoint.

02 - What’s on a Screen?

The next step for you is to get familiar with the screen. Let us discuss the different elements found in it.

03 - Starting Power Point

Here we go over the different ways of starting your work by creating a Powerpoint presentation.

04 - Working with Slides

In this chapter we go over the basics of creating and working with slides.

05 - Formatting Slides and Presentations

Now that you've learned how to manipulate slides and put them together into slide shows, we'll show you how to design and format all the available elements of a presentation.

06 - Creating Note Pages, Handouts and Photo Albums

This chapter goes over some of the other content you can create to compliment your slideshow.

07 - Working with Objects, Graphics and Charts

In this section, you will familiarize yourself with objects, graphs, Word tables and Excel worksheets.

08 - Master Slides and Slide Views

As we wrap-up this activity, you might want to give the final touches to your PowerPoint presentation. You could start with the outline view.