Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 Plain & Simple

Chapter 4. Building a Presentation

In this section:

• Understanding How to Build a Presentation

• Building a Slide

• Working with Text

• Finding and Replacing Text

• Manipulating Placeholders

Although a presentation can contain text, graphics, animations, and special elements such as charts and WordArt, most presentations begin with you entering some kind of text. Text is used for the major headings of each slide as well as for the individual bullet points that provide the details of your topic. You can enter text in an outline (see Chapter 5 for more about this) or in placeholders on individual slides in the Normal view of PowerPoint.

In this section you discover how to insert a new slide in your presentation and enter text on it. Once you have entered text, ...