Basic jobs for developing a PowerPoint presentation

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=” https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/bd228fd9-3177-4848-b56c-c30dae8407ce.png” > Select a theme When you open PowerPoint, you’ll see some built-in styles and design templates. A style is a slide style that contains matching colors, fonts, and unique effects like shadows, reflections, and

1. more. On the File tab of the Ribbon, choose New, and after that select a theme.

   PowerPoint reveals you a preview of the theme, with 4 color variations to pick from on the best side.

2. Click Develop, or select a color variation and then click Produce.

   

< img src=" https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/bd228fd9-3177-4848-b56c-c30dae8407ce.png "alt =" Reveals the Develop New discussion from Style dialog in

PowerPoint”/ >

Read more: Usage or produce themes in PowerPoint Insert a brand-new slide Check out

more: Include, rearrange, and delete

1. slides . Save your presentation On the File

2. tab, select Conserve.

3. Select or browse to a folder. In the File name box, type a name for your presentation, and then choose Conserve

. Keep in mind : If you regularly save files to a certain folder, you can ‘pin’ the course so that it is always offered (as shown below).

< img src= "https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/a98382b5-7d0a-4beb-ae0a-d1de105347f2.png" alt =" Conserve your PowerPoint presentation"/ > Tip: Save your work as you go. Press Ctrl + S typically or save the file to OneDrive and let AutoSave look after it for you.

Read more: Save your discussion file

Include text

Select a text placeholder, and start typing.

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” alt= ” Reveals adding text to a text field in

PowerPoint “/ >

• Format your text Select the text. Under Drawing Tools, pick Format.< img src= "https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/d42a2915-1dd0-4487-8f77-0f0d0b08bf57.png" alt= "Reveals the Illustration Tools tab

• on the ribbon in PowerPoint”/ > Do one of the following: To change the color of your

• text, select Text Fill, and then select a color. To alter the overview color of your text, select Text Outline, and after that choose a color. To

apply a shadow, reflection, glow, bevel,

3-D rotation, a transform, pick Text Results, and then

choose the impact you want. Learn more: Add images On the Place tab, select Images, then do

• one of the following: To insert an image that is saved on your regional drive or an internal server, select This Gadget, search for the image, and after that select Insert.

• ( For Microsoft 365 subscribers) To insert a picture from our library, choose Stock Images, browse for a photo, choose it and select Insert.

• To insert an image from the web, choose Online Pictures, and utilize the search box to discover a picture. Select a picture, and then click Insert.

  

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=” https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/8135afd1-f8ec-4636-9015-e511ec5fa414.png” alt =” Insert image location in the ribbon.

1. “/ > Add shapes You can include shapes to show your slide. On the Insert tab, choose Shapes, and after that select a shape from

2. the menu that appears. In the slide location, click and drag to draw the

3. shape. Select the Format or Shape Format tab on the ribbon. Open the Shape Designs gallery to quickly include a color and style (including shading) to the chosen shape.

   

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group”/ > Include speaker notes Slides are best when you don’t cram in excessive info. You can put helpful realities and notes in the speaker notes, and refer to them as you provide.

1. To open the notes pane, at the bottom of the window, click Notes < img

2. src=” https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/5ac0fbee-a6d9-477d-9439-d85446bbeece.png “alt=” notes button in PowerPoint”/ >. Click inside the Notes pane below the slide,

   

and start typing

your notes.< img src

=” https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/9a7ee826-15f3-4422-88df-e3c86ed28e76.png “alt =” Reveals the speaker Notes pane in PowerPoint

• “/ > Find out more: Offer your discussion On the Slide Program tab, do one of the following:

  

• To begin the presentation at the first slide, in the Start Slide Show group, click From Starting.

• < img src =" https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/dfb8679a-cf84-469d-ac26-41df923e7fb1.png" alt= "Shows the Slide Show tab on the ribbon in PowerPoint"/ > If you’re not at the very first slide and wish to start from where you are, click From Current Slide. If you need to provide to people who are not where you are, click

Present Online to establish a discussion

on the web, and then select among the following options: Leave Slide Show

view To leave Slide

Program view at any time, on the keyboard, press Esc. Select a theme You can quickly apply

1. a style when you’re beginning a new discussion:

2. On the File tab

   

, click New. Select a style.< img src=" https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/654d43f8-a14c-4c45-a0b5-0857a1521378.png" alt=" Apply a theme"/ >

Learn more: Use a style theme to your discussion

1. Place a brand-new slide In the slide thumbnail pane on the left, pick the slide that you want your new slide to follow.

2. On the Home tab, select the lower half of New Slide.

3. From the menu, select the design that you desire for your new slide.

   Your new slide is inserted, and you can click inside a placeholder to start adding material.

   Learn more about slide layouts

Learn more: Add, rearrange, and delete slides

Conserve your discussion

PowerPoint for the web instantly saves your work to your OneDrive, in the cloud.

To change the name of the automatically conserved file:

1. In the title bar, click the file name.

2. In the File Name box, get in the name you wish to use to the file.

3. If you want to alter the cloud storage location, at the best end of the Location box, click the arrow symbol, then navigate to the folder you want, then choose Move here.

, and after that pick a shape from the menu that appears.

< img src=" https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/b199e626-0d14-4acc-9e18-abaad8d5a292.png" alt=" The Shape tab on

1. the ribbon in PowerPoint for the web consists of quick designs you can use to any shape.”

   / > Include speaker notes On the View tab, choose Notes< img src=" https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/3e4bfb70-d28d-4209-910e-5d320897649a.png "alt=" The Notes button in PowerPoint "/ >

2. . A horizontal Notes pane appears at the bottom of the window, listed below the slide

   . Click in the pane, then go into text. The Notes pane can be made bigger, if necessary. When you point at the top border of the pane, the mouse pointer becomes a two-headed arrow < img src =" https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/b67c123b-1f92-4906-9567-5cee7986da6d.png" alt=" Vertical double arrow"/ >. Click the border, then drag up or down to resize the pane.

Provide your presentation

1. On the Slide Programtab, choose Play From Starting.

   

2. < img src="https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/307efd18-44ca-4b9e-9971-aef16264ca5d.png" alt="To begin a slide program, on the View tab of the ribbon select Play From Starting."/ > To navigate through the slides, just click the mouse or press the

   spacebar. Suggestion: You can also utilize the forward and back arrow secrets on your keyboard to browse through the slide program.

Learn more: Present your slide show

Stop a slide program

• To get out of Slide Show view at any time, on the keyboard, press Esc.

  The full-screen slide program will close, and you will be gone back to the modifying view of the file.

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