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Okay,
what is the blank presentation option? |  |
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This option gets you
started making slides from scratch. It's the building
block of a presentation. Let me show you how.
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My Aunt Edna used to make
pancakes from scratch. Mmm. |
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Uh, don't pour any syrup on
the slides, though, Jim. Heh heh. |
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Creating a slide from
scratch
In the next step you will create a Title Slide for
your presentation using the Blank Presentation option. You
will be working in Slide View.
1. Open the PowerPoint program. The PowerPoint
dialog box appears.
2. In the PowerPoint dialog box, click the Blank
Presentation option button. The New Slide dialog box
appears. It asks you to choose an AutoLayout
format.
3. Click the Title Slide layout. It's the
first in the list. The name Title Slide appears in the
preview box.
4. Click OK. A Title Slide appears, ready for you
to work with.
Note: The
PowerPoint dialog box appears only when you first launch
the program. If you are already working in PowerPoint and
want to create a new blank presentation, click the New
button 
on the Standard Toolbar or follow these steps:
1. Click the File menu, then Click New.
2. In the New Presentation dialog box, click
Blank Presentation, and then click OK.
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Okay,
now we have a Title Slide. But something's missing. Any
guesses?
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Hey,
who's interviewing who here? |
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I
know. The title! | |
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Good
guess, Sue. Let me show you how to add text to those blank
slides. |
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Adding text to a slide
The Title Slide layout contains text boxes for a title and
a subtitle. Try typing text into these boxes.
1. Click in the Title text box. A thick gray
border appears around the text box indicating that it is
selected.
2. Type a title.
3. Click the Subtitle text box and type a
subtitle.
Congratulations! You've just created your first slide
in PowerPoint 97.
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Okay,
you've created an impressive Title Slide for us. But
that's just one slide! We need to create more slides or
else we're going to have a pretty darn short presentation,
aren't we? |
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Wow,
these hard-hitting investigative questions don't let up do
they? You should be on 60 Minutes. Here, let me show you
how to add another slide... |
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Adding
another slide
1. Click the New Slide button on the
Common Tasks toolbar.
2. The AutoLayout dialog box will appear. Choose
a layout for your next slide.
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Okay,
so now we have multiple slides for our presentation. But
how do we move from slide to slide? |
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It's
as easy as the click of a button. Literally. Just click
and you've moved to a new slide. |
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That's great! You've got
the moves, baby. |
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Moving
from slide to slide
Let's say you've created several slides for your
presentation. You've finished working on the last slide,
and now you want to take a look at your other slides.
Here's how you move from slide to slide in Slide View.
To move to a previous slide:
1. Click the upper double-arrow button 
on the lower right corner of the PowerPoint window. The
previous slide will appear.
To move to the next slide:
1. Click the lower double-arrow button 
on the lower right corner of the PowerPoint window.
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