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Creating a presentation from scratch

Creating a presentation from scratch

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Creating a presentation from scratch

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- To work with a presentation, I want to make sure you know how to start right from the beginning. That is, creating a blank presentation, adding something to it, and saving it so that you can work on it later. To start, I'm going to double-click PowerPoint 2016 on the desktop and I'm brought to the main screen when you don't have an actual file open. From here, we're brought to a screen where we can choose various templates and themes. I'll be showing you how do that later. Right now, I want to create a blank presentation. So I'll double-click blank presentation which is the first option, and I'm very quickly brought right to my slides so that I can dive in. The first thing that you'll see is that we currently have one slide and some placeholder text. These gray squares around the text is a placeholder. This is PowerPoint's way of letting you quickly and easily add content to slides. To start editing text directly, I'm going to click my mouse where it says click to add title. That…

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