1. BY: Claude G. Smith
Course: EDAD 840
TECHNOLOGY TOOLS
PRESENTATION

2. How to Create a New Presentation?
When you start PowerPoint application, it opens in the view
called Normal view, where you create and work on slides.
But, if you would like to create a new Presentation, do the
following:
1. Click the File tab, and then click New.
2. Click Blank Presentation, and then click Create.

3. How to Create a New
Presentation

4. How to Add text to your Slide?
Below, the dotted border represents the placeholder that
contains the title text for the slide.

5. To add text to slide, do the
following:
Click inside the placeholder, and then type in your text.
You can drag the handle areas to expand the text area or
increase the placeholder spacing.

6. How to Name and Save your
Presentation
 It is recommended to name and save your presentation immediately and then to
save your changes frequently while you work:
 To name and save your presentation, follow these steps:
 1. Click the File tab.
 2. Click Save As, and then choose one of the following in the Save as
type list:
 · PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx): saving your presentation in this
format will enable it to be opened only in PowerPoint 2010 or PowerPoint
2007.
 · PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation (*.ppt): this format enables
your presentation to be opened in either PowerPoint 2010 or earlier
versions of PowerPoint.

7. How to Add a New slide?
you can you add, rearrange and delete a slide in your
presentation. To add a slide and slide layout of your new
slide, follow the steps below:
On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the arrow next
to New Slide. and then click the slide layout that you want.

8. How to Add a New slide?

9. How to re-arrange the order of
Slides?
1. In Normal view, Click the Slides tab,
2. Click the slide that you want to move, and then drag it to
the location that you want.
 How to Delete a Slide
· 1. In Normal view, click the Slides tab,
· 2. Right-click the slide that you want to delete, and
then click Delete Slide.

10. How to view a slide show.
To view your presentation in Slide Show view from the first
slide, do the following:
On the Slide Show tab, in the Start Slide Show group,
click From Beginning