Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000

Adding Slides

After you create a presentation, you may want to add new slides. To open the New Slide dialog box, click the New Slide button on the Standard toolbar. This adds a new slide right after the slide you are working on. Figure 6.1 shows this dialog box.

Tip

You can also open the New Slide dialog box by pressing Ctrl+M or by choosing Common Tasks, New Slide from the Formatting toolbar.

Choose the AutoLayout you want to use and click OK. PowerPoint creates a new slide using the selected layout (see Figure 6.2).

→ To learn more about each layout type, see Understanding Slide Layouts

Figure 6.1. Choose from many different slide types from ...