Creating a Presentation from Scratch

Besides creating a presentation by using the AutoContent Wizard, you can create a new presentation from scratch. When you open PowerPoint, in the Slide Pane, the first slide is a title slide with a title text box and a subtitle text box.

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Type in the name of your department for the title and your division for the subtitle.

Add a new slide using the New Slide button on the toolbar or choosing New Slide under Insert on the menu. As you add slides, the default format is Title and Text, which inserts a slide containing two placeholder text boxes.

On the right side of the window in the Task Pane are layouts you can choose from to apply to the slide (see below).

The text box at the top of the slide gives the title of the information on that slide. The main text box indicates “Click to add text.” To edit the text in the slides, select the text box (hatched lines appear around the box with resize handles at each corner and side) so that the text becomes highlighted and then type the desired text. Type in an appropriate title and text. For this exercise, type in your division as the title and its departments as bulleted items.

Next, click in a blank space just outside the edge of the slide to deselect the text box. The hatched lines and resize handles disappear.
With the insertion point at the end of a bulleted item, you create additional bulleted items by pressing the Enter key. As you add more text to a bulleted list, PowerPoint automatically adjusts the font size to fit in the main text placeholder. If the font size doesn't automatically adjust so that the text fits within the main text placeholder, click the AutoFit icon and then click AutoFit Text to Placeholder.
Go on to the next section on Applying a Design Template.

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	Creating a Presentation from Scratch Besides creating a presentation by using the AutoContent Wizard, you can create a new presentation from scratch. When you open PowerPoint, in the Slide Pane, the first slide is a title slide with a title text box and a subtitle text box. Replacing Placeholder text Type in the name of your department for the title and your division for the subtitle. Add a new slide using the New Slide button on the toolbar or choosing New Slide under Insert on the menu. As you add slides, the default format is Title and Text, which inserts a slide containing two placeholder text boxes. On the right side of the window in the Task Pane are layouts you can choose from to apply to the slide (see below). When you select a layout, a drop-down list appears from which to choose how to apply the layout, to one or all slides. For this presentation, use the default layout provided. The text box at the top of the slide gives the title of the information on that slide. The main text box indicates “Click to add text.” To edit the text in the slides, select the text box (hatched lines appear around the box with resize handles at each corner and side) so that the text becomes highlighted and then type the desired text. Type in an appropriate title and text. For this exercise, type in your division as the title and its departments as bulleted items. Next, click in a blank space just outside the edge of the slide to deselect the text box. The hatched lines and resize handles disappear. With the insertion point at the end of a bulleted item, you create additional bulleted items by pressing the Enter key. As you add more text to a bulleted list, PowerPoint automatically adjusts the font size to fit in the main text placeholder. If the font size doesn't automatically adjust so that the text fits within the main text placeholder, click the AutoFit icon and then click AutoFit Text to Placeholder. Go on to the next section on Applying a Design Template. Click here to return to Course Topics or PowerPoint 2003 Topics.
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