Building a Slide

When you open a blank presentation, PowerPoint provides you with one blank title slide. A title slide contains two placeholders, a title and a subtitle. When you insert a slide, a title and content slide is inserted by default. This contains a title placeholder where you enter the topic for the slide and a placeholder for inserting bulleted points for that topic. There are other slide layouts that use text placeholders, but for building presentation contents, these are the two types of slides you will use most often. (See Chapter 9 for information about working with slide layouts that include graphic elements).

Insert a New Slide

  1. Click the Home tab.

  2. Click the New Slide button to insert a new title and content slide.

  3. Click the ...

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