I'm organizing a team-building workshop
for my company and I think a PowerPoint
presentation is just what we need when I
open powerpoints a new blank
presentation with one slide appears by
default if you want to create a new
PowerPoint presentation while you're
already in PowerPoint you can do this
from the Microsoft Office button just
click the button and select new the new
presentation dialog box appears and
blank presentation is selected by
default
you would just click create and a new
blank presentation would open
I'm actually just going to close this
since we already have a blank
presentation open by default new
presentations are given a name such as
presentation 1 which you will want to
change when you save the document also
you'll notice that we are in normal view
which is the default to view where you
will actually create your slides in the
big area here we have the slides pane
which is where you will work directly on
one slide at a time the default slide
that appears is a blank title slide
layout that has placeholders for a title
and subtitle placeholders are the boxes
with the dotted borders they can contain
many different things including text
pictures charts and more let's start by
inserting text into one of the
placeholders just click your mouse in
the placeholder and you'll notice that
the placeholder text disappears and your
insertion point is now visible once you
see the insertion points you can begin
typing your text will call this 2008
team-building workshop
and when we're done we can click outside
the placeholder so we can see our text
without the dotted lines and we can do
the same thing with our subtitle and
insert our text over the placeholder
text okay now that we have our text on
the first slide I'm ready to add a new
slide to add a new slide just click the
new slide command a menu appears with
your slide layout options a slight
layout arranges your slide content for
example you may want both text and a
picture on the slide or just a picture
layouts contain different types of
placeholders that you can use depending
on what information you want to include
in your presentation for example we have
a title slide layout that has
placeholders for a title and subtitle
and a title in content slide layouts
where you can insert a title and some
content in the area below it looks like
that content could be a variety of
things such as text images charts and
more a section header slide a title only
slide one with content in two areas and
several other layout options the best
way to become familiar with each of
these layouts is to just give them a try
and see what works best with the
information you want to include I have
some info about what people can expect
to gain from the workshop I think the
slide layout will look best so from the
new slide command I'll just click title
and content now a new slide appears in
the center and in the pane to the left
we can type our title what you can
expect to gain
in the title placeholder and then select
the content placeholder you'll see some
images in the center of the placeholder
if we hover over each of these you can
see some of the types of content you can
insert such as tables charts clip art
and photos or you can insert text all
you have to do is start typing as soon
as you started typing you may have
noticed that the icons disappeared this
placeholder now functions like a text
box which we will learn more about in
lesson 3
when you're creating PowerPoint
presentations you'll want to remember to
use the fewest numbers of words possible
to get your point across