Week Three: Reading - PowerPoint Tutorial

Creating a slide from scratch

In the next step you will create a Title Slide for your presentation using the Blank Presentation option. You will be working in Slide View.

1. Open the PowerPoint program. The PowerPoint dialog box appears.

2. In the PowerPoint dialog box, click the Blank Presentation option button. The New Slide dialog box appears. It asks you to choose an AutoLayout format.

3. Click the Title Slide layout. It's the first in the list. The name Title Slide appears in the preview box.

4. Click OK. A Title Slide appears, ready for you to work with.

Note: The PowerPoint dialog box appears only when you first launch the program. If you are already working in PowerPoint and want to create a new blank presentation, click the New button on the Standard Toolbar or follow these steps:

1. Click the File menu, then Click New.

2. In the New Presentation dialog box, click Blank Presentation, and then click OK.

Adding text to a slide
The Title Slide layout contains text boxes for a title and a subtitle. Try typing text into these boxes.

1. Click in the Title text box. A thick gray border appears around the text box indicating that it is selected.

2. Type a title.


3. Click the Subtitle text box and type a subtitle.
Congratulations! You've just created your first slide in PowerPoint 97.



Adding another slide

1. Click the New Slide button on the Common Tasks toolbar.

2. The AutoLayout dialog box will appear. Choose a layout for your next slide.


It's as easy as the click of a button. Literally. Just click and you've moved to a new slide.


Moving from slide to slide

Let's say you've created several slides for your presentation. You've finished working on the last slide, and now you want to take a look at your other slides. Here's how you move from slide to slide in Slide View.

1. Click the upper double-arrow button on the lower right corner of the PowerPoint window. The previous slide will appear.

1. Click the lower double-arrow button on the lower right corner of the PowerPoint window.