What are slides?

Slides display the key information in your presentation. Each slide represents one major idea. A slide usually has a heading with some bulleted items and/or graphics to convey the salient points you want the listeners to take away.

Each slide can have speaker notes associated with it, to help you remember details of your talk. Speaker notes aren’t visible to the audience; they are for your use only.

How do I
add a slide?

- pull down the Insert menu and choose New Slide:

2) Click on the AutoLayout you want to use for the new slide, then click OK. (For a reminder about AutoLayout, see the Templates section.) Your new slide will now appear. A new slide icon will also be displayed on the left-hand side of the screen.

For practice, add a few more slides to your presentation, selecting a different AutoLayout for each one. Notice that there are dotted white placeholders on each slide, where later you will add your information.

To delete a slide, follow these steps.

1) Make sure that the slide you want to delete is selected (click on its icon on the left-hand side of the window).

2) Tell PowerPoint you want to delete the slide. You can do this in one of several ways:

- pull down the Edit menu and choose Delete Slide:

OR

- press the Delete key,

OR

- press the Backspace key.

The slide will immediately be deleted.

To move through your slides, you can either click on the desired slide icon on the left-hand side of the screen, or you can use the vertical scroll bar to the right of the slide display to scroll through the slides.

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