PowerPoint slides are great tools for presenting information in a visually pleasing manner. Whether it is a business presentation, educational or other forms of materials, knowing how to work with PowerPoint features can determine the success of your presentation. Below better explains how to manage and improve your presentation skills successfully.
Adding, Deleting, and Hiding Slides
Adding Slides:
In order to add a slide to your presentation, follow these steps:
- Click on the tab that says “Home”.
- Click on the “New Slide” button.
- Choose a slide type. For example, “Comparison” or “Blank”.
Removing or Adding Slides:
- If you want to add a slide, you can right-click on a slide and copy it. If you prefer to remove a slide, you can right-click on it and choose “Delete Slide”.
Hiding Slides:
- If you would like to hide a slide in a slideshow, you can right-click the slide and choose “Hide Slide”.
- Or you can click a slide and go to the “Slide Show” tab and select “Hide Slide”.
These tools allow you to effectively manage your presentation by adding and removing slides as well as selecting which slides will be used in the presentation.
Modifying the Order of the Slides
To change the order of your slide, you need to do the following:
- Select the slide that you want to edit.
- Move it to the desired position on the slide bar in the presentation.
This method is effective as it eliminates the need to reinsert or delete slides because all modifications can be done quickly and easily.
Adding and Editing Shapes
Shapes always make good tools to bring out important areas or better the appearance of your slides. You can add and edit shapes using these steps:
- Go to the “Insert” tab and click on “Shapes.”
- There are numerous shapes available to choose from, for instance, circles, rectangles, arrows and others.
- Click on the shape and drag its edges to change its size and position.
- Go to the “Shape Format” tab and select your options if you want to change the color.
These simple steps allow you to support your slides aesthetically, visually and your text too can be effective.
Shape Combination Designing
The combination of shapes method is a great way of adding different elements to the rest of the slide. This is what you should do:
- Start by clicking on one shape you want.
- Now click on another shape while holding the “Ctrl” key to combine the two.
- Use “Ctrl + G” to group the two shapes into a single shape.
- To change the layer order of shapes, you can also right-click on the shape and select Mar Send to Back.
- You can edit the title and other properties of the merged shapes to correspond with the presentation.
Summary of Lesson:
- To add slides, click on the New Slide button in the Home tab.
- To reorder the slides, click and drag them to the desired position.Change the shapes in your slides and format them to meet your needs.
- Create different shapes to get a specific look and set their properties to have a consistent look.
To better your presentation and to get the attention of your audience PowerPoint can greatly help in organizing the presentation structure, changing the design and making it more attractive.
