As you know, Powerpoint is a software developed by the Microsoft company. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on several operating systems. Powerpoint is used to make slides for presentations, in which you can put multimedia resources, such as text, sound, graphics, video, interactive elements, etc.
* The “slide” analogy is a reference to the slide projector.
Create a presentation:
Here is how to create a new blank presentation. This option is typically used when the person who generates the presentation has experience on it. In fact, Powerpoint has a lot of templates incorporated in the Microsoft Office suite.
1. Create a blank presentation:
To create a blank presentation, follow these steps:
- Displays the “Office Button“.
- Select the “New” option.
- In the “New Presentation” dialog box, click on the “Blank presentation” (select it) and click the “Create Button“.
That’s how you can get a blank presentation. You have a slide and two boxes of text to add a title and a subtitle.
Now we need to give content to the slides or add more slides to make everything that we need for the presentation.
2. Creating a presentation with a template:
To create a presentation with a template, follow these steps:
- Displays the “Office Button“.
- Select the “New” option.
- In the “New Presentation” dialog box, click on the “Installed Templates” category. You will see a dialog box.
- Select the design template that you like. In the right part you will see a preview of the template you have chosen.
- Once you find the template, click the “Create Button“.
Remember that you can always find more Powerpoint templates from the box “New” dialog box:
- The templates that you download will be installed in the templates category.
- You can also find more templates in the Office official website or search the Web.
Remember that you can also find more free Powerpoint templates at the FPPT site.
3. Save a presentation:
Here’s how to save a presentation. It is important that from time to time changes to keep our presentation so that in case of system failure lose the least possible changes.
4. Saving a presentation:
To save a presentation can go to “Office Button” and select “Save“.
If this is the first time you save the presentation, we will see a window with the three directory of the files system. In fact, you can save also through Ctrl+S (Save).
The format of a Powerpoint presentation is the extension ppt, and in the new versions of Microsoft Office, the extension is pptx.
If you want to save a presentation with another name (for example, we want to create a new presentation using a presentation that we already have) will deploy the “Office Button” and select “Save As…“, then the same window of the files system appears. When using this option, we have the final two presentations: the initial one, and the same with the new name.
5. Save a presentation as a Web page:
To save a presentation as a Web page which can be viewed with a browser, click on the “Office Button” and select “Save As...”
Selecting this option will appear the same window as we’ve seen so far. The difference in this case is that now we select the Web page format (HTML) to keep our presentation as a file that can be viewed with a browser.
6. Distribute a Powerpoint presentation:
You can use the Powerpoint Viewer software, that is a program used to run presentations on computers that don’t have Powerpoint installed.