Creating a New Blank Presentation

If you want to create the text and design of a presentation from scratch, you can work with a new blank presentation. When you first start PowerPoint, a blank presentation appears in the presentation window. If you are already working in PowerPoint, you can click New on the File menu to display a new blank presentation.

In this exercise, you will create a blank presentation and then save it.

  1. If the New Presentation task pane is not displayed, click the Other Task Panes down arrow at the right end of the task pane’s title bar, and click New Presentation in the drop-down list.

    Troubleshooting

    If the task pane is not open, click Task Pane on the View menu.

  2. In the New Presentation task pane, click Blank presentation.

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