PowerPoint Presentation Basics (Video Tutorial)
Learn how to make a basic presentation in PowerPoint in this beginner tutorial screencast. It's packed with everything you need to know to get star...
PowerPoint Presentation Basics (Step by Step Tutorial)
The basics of PowerPoint are essentially the same, whether you're using PowerPoint for Windows, Mac, or the free PowerPoint Web App. It might look...
Getting to A Slide That You Can Edit
When you first start PowerPoint, you'll have four basic choices: 1. Create a new, blank presentation 2. Create a new presentation based on a format...
Formatting A PowerPoint Slide
To apply the formatting from a template in the Windows version of PowerPoint, click the Design tab.In the Mac version, click the Themes tab.In Wind...
Adding Text and Inserting Slides
Now let's enter some text. Even though the slide says "Click to add title", you don't have to click anything. Just start typing! The text will auto...
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You now know the basic steps of creating and running a basic PowerPoint presentation. Even long, complex and fancy presentations start the same way...
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Step 1: Choose The Perfect Business PowerPoint Template
Sure, you could just open PowerPoint, throw a bunch of pictures and charts up every which way and call it a day. But if you’re going to do that, yo...
Step 2: Choose Your Favorite PowerPoint Presentation
After browsing and drooling over all the wonderful business PPT presentations, it’s time to choose one. Difficult step, I know!Some of the things y...
Step 3: Set Up Your Template
When you download your chosen template to your computer, you’ll see that you have a few options to choose from in the main folder, before starting...
Step 4: “Save As” Your Presentation!
Seems weird to start with the saving option when we haven’t created anything in our presentation yet, doesn’t it?Not so weird when you understand t...
Step 5: General Editing and Options
In the center part of your screen, you have the first slide of your presentation. In the left-hand side of your screen you can see a vertical menu...
Step 6: Images, Graphics, and Other Elements
Knowing how to make a PowerPoint presentation say exactly what you want it to say is only half the work. The other half is making it show exactly w...
Step 7: Adding Or Deleting Slides
Each business PowerPoint presentation is as different as the entrepreneur or freelancer creating it. And in addition to changing the text and visua...
Step 8: Reordering Your Presentation
The great thing about using a template to create your PowerPoint presentation is that the template acts as a guide to the structure of your present...
Step 9: Transitions
Remember that at the beginning of this tutorial I told you I would choose the animated version of the tutorial? Well, you can change even the anima...
Step 10: Play Your Presentation
After all the clicks and changes it’s finally time to view the masterpiece you’ve created in real time! Always play your presentation before presen...