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I'm organizing a team building workshop for
my company, and I think a PowerPoint presentation

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is just what we need.
When I open PowerPoint a new, blank presentation

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with one slide appears by default.
If you want to create a new PowerPoint presentation

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while you're already in PowerPoint, you can
do this from the Microsoft Office Button.

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Just click the button, and select New.
The New Presentation dialog box appears and

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Blank presentation is selected by default.
You would just click Create and a new, blank

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presentation would open.
I'm actually just going to close this since

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we already have a blank presentation open.
By default, new presentations are given a

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name such as Presentation 1 which you will
want to change when you save the document.

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Also, you'll notice that we are in Normal
View which is the default view where you will

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actually create your slides.
In the big area here we have the slide pane,

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which is where you will work directly on one
slide at a time.

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The default slide that appears is a blank
Title Slide layout that has placeholders for

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a title and subtitle.
Placeholders are the boxes with the dotted

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borders.
They can contain many different things including

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text, pictures, charts, and more.
Let's start by inserting text into one of

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the placeholders.
Just click your mouse in the placeholder and

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you'll notice that the placeholder text disappears
and your insertion point is now visible.

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Once you see the insertion point, you can
begin typing your text.

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We'll call this 2008 Team Building Workshop.
And when we are done, we can click outside

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the placeholder so we can see our text without
the dotted lines.

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And we can do the same thing with our subtitle
and insert our text over the placeholder text.

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Ok, now that we have our text on the first
slide, I am ready to add a new slide.

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To add a new slide, just click the New Slide
Command.

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A menu appears with your slide layout options.
A slide layout arranges your slide content.

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For example, you may want both text and a
picture on the slide, or just a picture.

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Layouts contain different types of placeholders
that you can use depending on what information

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you want to include in your presentation.
For example, we have the Title Slide layout

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that has placeholders for a title and subtitle.
And a Title and Content slide layout where

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you can insert a title and some content in
the area below.

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It looks like that content could be a variety
of things such as text, images, charts, and

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more.
A Section Header slide, a Title Only slide,

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one with content in two areas, and several
other layout options.

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The best way to become familiar with each
of these layouts is to just give them a try

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and see what works best with the information
you want to include.

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I have some info about what people can expect
to gain from the workshop.

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I think this slide layout will look best,
so from the New Slide command, I'll just click

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Title and Content.
Now a new slide appears in the center and

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in the pane to the left.
We can type our title What You Can Expect

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to Gain 
in the title placeholder, and then select
the content placeholder.

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You'll see some images in the center of the
placeholder.

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If we hover over each of these you can see
some of the types of content you can insert

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such as tables, charts, clip art, and photos,
or if you want to insert text you can just

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begin typing.
As soon as you started typing, you may have

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noticed that the icons disappeared.
This placeholder now functions like a text

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box, which we will learn more about in lesson
3.

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When you're creating PowerPoint presentations,
you'll want to remember to use the fewest

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numbers of words possible to get your point
accross.