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I've been working with a local animal
rescue and I think a PowerPoint
presentation is just what we need to
showcase some pictures and information
about the pets available for adoption
but how do we get to this from a slide
that started out like this the key is
understanding how slides layouts and
placeholders work let's take a look
placeholders are the areas on the slide
and closed by little dotted lines
placeholders can contain text some of
them can even contain things like tables
and pictures just hover over the
commands in the placeholder to see what
you can do the way these placeholders
are arranged on the slide has to do with
the slide layout this layout happens to
include a placeholder for the title and
two placeholders for content you can
choose the layout when you first insert
a slide or change it later depending on
the type of information you decide to
include that's what I'd like to do with
this line which is supposed to be more
of a section header to open a menu of
all the different slide layouts all we
have to do is click the layout command
in the slides group here we can see that
this light is using the two content
layout but based on the thumbnail for
section header I think this one would be
a better fit just click to change and
this is perfect
PowerPoint immediately takes the
contents of my placeholders applies the
new layout and even modifies the
formatting to better fit the purpose of
the slide very quickly I'd like to show
you what to do when a layout is almost
perfect but needs a little reworking
this looks great for example but the
layout includes the placeholder I'm not
planning to use to delete any unwanted
placeholders all you have to do is
position your mouse on the dotted border
notice how the cursor changes and click
to select it now press backspace or
delete on your keyboard on the other
hand if you wanted to add to your
current layout you can include text
wherever you like by inserting a text
box we're going to go over them in
detail in a later lesson but while we're
here I thought I'd show you how to use
the command just go to the insert tab
and click text box text boxes are
especially useful if you ever decide to
use a blank slide that doesn't have
placeholders speaking of slides I think
I'd like to insert a couple more to
finish building my presentation where
should we start let's go back to the
Home tab how about another section
header for the part of the presentation
where we feature cats and other small
pets we can click the top half of the
new slide command to quickly add a slide
with the same layout as the one I have
selected that's not really what I want
so I'm just going to delete this slide
by pressing backspace or delete on my
keyboard to insert a new slide with a
different layout I'm going to click the
bottom half of the command this opens
the menu where I can choose the layout I
want in this case section header now I
need to move this slide up a couple
places right before slide 7 where the
section on cats and other small pets
begins to move a slide all you have to
do is click and hold it in the left pane
then drag where you want the slide to go
see that horizontal insertion point that
marks where it's going to be moved when
I release my mouse to quickly add slides
for the rest of the pets we want to
include I'd like to try the copy and
paste method this can really save you
time when the slides you already have
are so similar to what you need to copy
and paste select the slide you want to
copy then click the copy command now
click in between or below the slide
where you want the copy to appear
another insertion point marks the spot
and go back to the ribbon to click paste
creating presentations is easy once you
know the secret to using placeholders
layouts and working with PowerPoint
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