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Tick ( ) if you know this.
▶ A presentation is a sequential display of information using text, graphics and audios.
▶ An individual page in a PowerPoint presentation is called a slide.
CREATING A NEW PRESENTATION
A presentation is a collection of various slides. When you first start PowerPoint, the program
automatically starts a new presentation for you and names it ‘Presentation1’.
To create a new presentation, open PowerPoint 2016 and click on the Blank Presentation
option in the backstage view.
A new presentation opens with a blank slide with two
placeholders which is called the Title slide. We use the To insert a new slide:
Title slide to add an introduction to our presentation.
Let us create a presentation on the topic, ‘Our Environment’. Short key Ctrl + M
CREATING A TITLE SLIDE
A title slide displays the text placeholder, where the text is
to be typed.
1 Click on the Title text placeholder
box and enter title for the presentation.
2 Click on the Subtitle text placeholder box
and enter a subtitle for the presentation.
ADDING A SLIDE TO THE PRESENTATION
After creating the Title slide, we add more slides to our presentation.
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