Using the AutoContent Wizard
The AutoContent Wizard
The AutoContent Wizard provides presentation categories to choose from such as "Recommending a Strategy," "Brainstorming Session," or "Selling Your Ideas." After you select the type of presentation, the AutoContent Wizard provides a general outline to follow and formats the slides using a built-in design template. A design template contains the colors and format of the background and the type style of the titles, accents, and other text. These can be changed as needed.
If you can't see the Outline tab and the Slide Pane, click the Normal View button
on the View toolbar or go to View on the menu
bar and select Normal. If the New Presentation Task
Pane doesn't appear on your screen, click View on the menu bar, and then click
Task Pane.
If the Task Pane isn't New Presentation, click the Other Task Panes list arrow at the top of the Task Pane and click New Presentation.
Under New on the Task Pane, click From AutoContent Wizard.
The first of several AutoContent Wizard dialog boxes opens (see below). Click on the Next button to go to the next step of the AutoContent Wizard.
This dialog box allows you to select the type of presentation.
The AutoContent Wizard can help you create different types of presentations.
Practice: Creating an AutoContent Presentation
- Click the General button, and then, click Generic. Click Next to go to the next step in the wizard.
- Under "What type of output will you use?", make sure the On-screen presentation option button is selected and then click the Next button.
- In this dialog box, you'll specify the title and footer of the presentation. Click in the Presentation title text box and type UA’s Paperless Billing System, click in the Footer text box and type Office of Information Technology , and then click the Date last updated check box to deselect it. Leave the Slide Number box checked.
- Then click on Finish. When you finish answering the questions, PowerPoint displays the AutoContent outline which automatically displays the presenter's name (actually the name of the computer's owner) below the title in Slide 1.
Go on to the next section on Editing AutoContent Slides.