Training: Watch and learn how to create a PowerPoint presentation, add/format text, and add pictures, shapes, and/or charts.

Set your PowerPoint presentation to run itself, advance when viewers click, or play in a loop.

Are you new to PowerPoint? This is a step-by-step topic to help you create a basic presentation using PowerPoint

Quickly create a basic presentation in four steps by applying a theme, adding new slides with various slide layouts, and then adding visual interest by applying a slide transition to all slides.

Control the effect, duration, or sound used for a slide transition, and the time to spend on a slide before advancing to the next.

In the Slide Size dialog box, select Portrait, then select OK. In the next dialog box, you can select Maximize to take full advantage of the space available, or you can select Ensure Fit to make sure …

You can add new slides, change the order of the slides, and delete slides you don’t need.

With the audio icon selected on the slide, on the Playback tab, select Play in Background. Play in Background makes the audio file start automatically during a slide show and also makes the audio …

Click a location in the slide thumbnail pane where you want the new slide master to appear. On the Slide Master tab, select Insert Slide Master. Note: In the slide thumbnail pane, the slide master is the …

You can add a solid or gradient color, a pattern, or an image as the background of a slide or an entire presentation.