3.3. Add a Slide

When you open a new presentation, PowerPoint creates a blank title slide. To build your presentation, you can add as many slides as you like.

Determine the number of slides in your presentation based on how many topics you want to cover and the time you have available to cover them. Each slide should cover or detail a new topic.

Add a Slide

1 With a presentation open (either blank or existing) click the Home tab.

2 Click the New Slide button.

3 Click the desired layout for the new slide in the gallery.

A new blank slide with the specified layout appears.

NOTE

Clicking the top half of the New Slide button inserts a slide with ...

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