Creating a PowerPoint Presentation

Getting Started

• • Create a presentation in PowerPoint

  • Save in PowerPoint

  • Design in PowerPoint

  • Collaborate in PowerPoint

  • Set up your mobile apps

  • Learn more about PowerPoint

Slides & layouts

• • What is a slide master?

  • Add, rearrange, duplicate, and delete slides in PowerPoint

  • Apply or change a slide layout

  • Add color and design to your slides with themes

  • Apply a template to a new presentation

  • Get design ideas for slides

  • Customize a slide master

  • Change the page orientation in PowerPoint between landscape and portrait

  • Organize your PowerPoint slides into sections

  • Add a DRAFT watermark to the background of slides

Text & tables

• • Insert WordArt

  • Add a hyperlink to a slide

  • Create a PowerPoint presentation from an outline

  • Check spelling in your presentation

  • Create and format a table

  • Insert a linked Excel chart in PowerPoint

  • Add slide numbers, page numbers, or the date and time

  • Set text direction and position in a shape or text box

Pictures & graphics

• • Insert a picture in PowerPoint

  • Apply an artistic effect to a picture

  • Add SmartArt to a slide

  • Put a background picture on your slides

  • Add a background picture (or watermark) to slides

  • Use charts and graphs in your presentation

  • Insert icons in Microsoft Office

  • Calendar settings in Outlook on the web

  • Using the Scheduling Assistant in Outlook on the web

  • Share your calendar in Outlook on the web

  • Create, modify, or delete a meeting request or appointment in Outlook on the web

  • Import or subscribe to a calendar in Outlook on the web

  • Manage someone else's calendar in Outlook on the web

  • Calendar delegation in Outlook on the web

Animation, video & audio

• • Add, change, or remove transitions between slides

  • Animate text or objects

  • Use the Morph transition in PowerPoint

  • Insert or link to a video on YouTube

  • Add or delete audio in your PowerPoint presentation

  • Record your screen in PowerPoint

Share & co-author

• • Add, change, hide, or delete comments in a presentation

  • Share your PowerPoint presentation with others

  • Save a presentation as a video

  • Inspect a presentation

  • Save PowerPoint presentations as PDF files