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I've been working with a local animal rescue,
and I think a PowerPoint presentation is just

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what we need to showcase some pictures and
information about the pets available for adoption.

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But how do we get to this from a slide that
started out like this? The key is understanding

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how slides, layouts, and placeholders work.
Let's take a look.

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Placeholders are the areas on the slide enclosed
by little dotted lines. Placeholders can contain

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text; some of them can even contain things
like tables and pictures. Just hover over

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the commands in the placeholder to see what
you can do.

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The way these placeholders are arranged on
the slide has to do with the slide layout.

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This layout happens to include a placeholder
for the title and two placeholders for content.

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You can choose the layout when you first insert
a slide, or change it later depending on the

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type of information you decide to include.
That's what I'd like to do with this slide,

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which is supposed to be more of a section
header.

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To open a menu of all the different slide
layouts, all we have to do is click the Layout

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command in the Slides group. Here, we can
see that this slide is using the Two Content

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layout, but based on the thumbnail for Section
Header, I think this one would be a better

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fit. Just click to change, and - this is perfect.
PowerPoint immediately takes the contents

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of my placeholders, applies the new layout,
and even modifies the formatting to better

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fit the purpose of the slide.

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Very quickly, I'd like to show you what to
do when a layout is almost perfect but needs

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a little reworking. This looks great, for
example, but the layout includes a placeholder

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I'm not planning to use. To delete any unwanted
placeholders, all you have to do is position

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your mouse on the dotted border (notice how
the cursor changes) and click to select it.

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Now press Backspace or Delete on your keyboard.

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On the other hand, if you wanted to add to
your current layout, you can include text

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wherever you like by inserting a text box.
We're going to go over them in detail in a

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later lesson, but while we're here, I thought
I'd show you how to use the command. Just

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go to the Insert tab, and click Text Box.
Text boxes are especially useful if you ever

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decide to use a blank slide that doesn't have
placeholders.

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Speaking of slides, I think I'd like to insert
a couple more to finish building my presentation.

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Where should we start? Let's go back to the
Home tab. How about another section header

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for the part of the presentation where we
feature cats and other small pets? We can

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click the top half of the New Slide command
to quickly add a slide with the same layout

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as the one I have selected. That's not really
what I want, so I'm just going to delete this

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slide by pressing Backspace or Delete on my
keyboard. To insert a slide with a different

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layout, I'm going to click the bottom half
of the command. This opens the menu, where

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I can choose the layout I want - in this case,
Section Header.

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Now I need to move this slide up a couple
places - right before slide 7, where the section

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on cats and other small pets begins. To move
a slide, all you have to do is click and hold

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it in the left pane, then drag where you want
the slide to go. See that horizontal insertion

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point? That marks where it's going to be moved
when I release my mouse.

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To quickly add slides for the rest of the
pets we want to include, I'd like to try the

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Copy & Paste method. This can really save
you time when the slides you already have

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are so similar to what you need. To copy and
paste, select the slide you want to copy,

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then click the Copy command. Now click in
between or below the slide where you want

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the copy to appear (another insertion point
marks the spot) and go back to the Ribbon

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to click Paste.

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Creating presentations is easy once you know
the secret to using placeholders, layouts,

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and working with PowerPoint slides.