How to create a New Presentation in Powerpoint 2007
You can start a new presentation from a blank slide, a template, existing presentations, or a Word outline.
To create a new presentation from a blank slide:
- Click the Microsoft Office Button
- Click New
Click Blank Presentation
How To create a new presentation from a template:
- Click the Microsoft Office Button
- Click New
- Click Installed Templates, list of templates will appear
- Click the template you choose
How to create a new Presentation from existing Presentation
To create a new presentation from an existing presentation:
- Click the Microsoft Office Button
- Click New
- Click New from Existing
- Browse to and click the presentation
How To create a new presentation from a Word outline:
- Click the slide where you would like the outline to begin
- Click New Slide on the Home tab
- Click Slides from Outline
- Browse and click the Word Document that contains the outline
How to Save a Presentation
When you save a presentation, you have two choices: Save or Save As.
To save a document:
- Click the Microsoft Office Button
- Click Save
You can use the Save As feature
· When you need to save a presentation under a different name or
· To save it for earlier versions of PowerPoint.
· To save in a different file format .
** Remember that older versions of PowerPoint will not be able to open PowerPoint 2007 presentation unless you save it as a PowerPoint 97-2003 Format.
To use the Save As feature:
- Click the Microsoft Office Button
- Click Save As
- Type in the name for the Presentation
- In the Save as Type box, choose Excel 97-2003 Presentation
How to Add Slides
You can add a new slide to the presentation: Office Themes, Duplicate Selected Slide, or Reuse Slides.
To create a new slide from Office Themes:
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- Click the New Slide button on the Home tab
- Select the slide you want
How To create a duplicate slide of a Presentation
- Select the slide to duplicate
- Click the New Slide button on the Home tab
- Click Duplicate Selected Slides
How To create a new slide from another presentation:
- Click the New Slide button on the Home tab
- Click Reuse Slides
- Click Browse
- Click Browse File
- Locate the slide show and click on the slide to import
Working with Themes
Themes are already made templates that you can use for your presentation.
To add a theme to your presentation:
- Click the Design tab
- Choose one of the displayed Themes or click the Galleries button
How to apply new colors to a theme
- Click the Colors drop down arrow
Choose a color set or click Create New Theme Colors
How To change the background style of a theme
Click the Background Styles button on the Design tab
