1. Creating Presentation, Slides
and Text
Lecture 17
Zikria Mian

2. Starting a New Presentation
• Opening a blank presentation
• Opening a template
– Installed templates
– Online templates

3. Saving file
• Saving for the first time
• Saving subsequent times
• Saving in different format
– .pptx, .pptm, .potx, .ppsx, .xml, .pdf …….
• Saving for use on the Web
• Saving slides as graphics
• Saving slides as text only

4. Closing and reopening presentation
• Open for editing
• Open read-only
• Open Copy
• Open in browser
• Open and repair

5. Creating New Slides
• From outline pane
• From the slides pane
• From the layout
• Copying slides

6. Inserting contents from External
Sources
• From other PowerPoint Files
• Inserting new slides from Outline
(presentation layout in Word)
– Home tab lower portion of ‘new slide’ 
slide from outline
• Importing from other text-based formats
– Plain text files, WordPerfect, MS Works and
web pages

7. Managing Slides
• Selecting slides
• Deleting slides
• Undo mistakes
• Rearranging slides
– In sorter view
– In outline/slides pane

8. Using contents Placeholder
• Inserting content into a placeholder
• Creating text boxes manually
• Formatting text in a text box

9. Summary
• What is PowerPoint
• Creating new file
• Using existing presentations
• Inserting content from other sources
• Managing slides
• Using content placeholders

10. Summary
• What is PowerPoint
• Creating new file
• Using existing presentations
• Inserting content from other sources
• Managing slides
• Using content placeholders