3.1. Understanding Presentation Structure

You use PowerPoint to build a presentation slide by slide. Those slides, shown or printed in order, make up your presentation. Different slide types (layouts) serve different functions in your presentation. The layout controls what placeholders appear on a slide. Learn more about layouts in Chapter 5.

Title Slide The Title Slide typically appears first and includes the presentation title or topic and a subtitle. The subtitle might be the presenter's name or the presenting company's name, or it might be the date and location of the presentation. There is usually just one title slide in a presentation.
Title and Content Slide A Title and Content slide is perhaps the most frequently used slide layout. ...

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