How to Make PowerPoint — Making Reports and Presentations

This updated guide explains how to Make PowerPoint — Making Reports and Presentations through clear steps, practical examples, and important checks that help prevent common errors.

this guide will guide you how to make PowerPoint easiest for beginners to get acquainted with PowerPoint.

Start PowerPoint

PowerPoint is built into the Microsoft Office installer, if you have the entire Office installed, you have the PowerPoint program. To start PowerPoint, select the Start menu -> All Programs -> Microsoft Office -> Microsoft PowerPoint or you can enter the Microsoft PowerPoint keyword into the search box of the Start menu and select Microsoft PowerPoint (depending on the version of PowerPoint that select Office of that version).

With PowerPoint 2013, when you start PowerPoint, the first interface that appears will be the template selection interface, if you may need to create a blank page, select Blank Presentation . You can also choose from the available templates displayed on the interface to get started on the main interface.

Choose Templates Available in PowerPoint

For PowerPoint 2010 and lower versions, when you start PowerPoint, you will immediately enter the main interface with the default blank page. Instead of leaving a white background, you can choose Microsoft's predefined templates with diverse and rich themes, making your presentation more beautiful and attractive. Using the existing template, when you add a new slide, the background of the slide is still the template you have chosen. To select an existing template, select the Design tab and then select the template in Themes .

Add a New Slide

The first page will be the cover, and the following pages will be the content page. To add new slides, on the Home tab, select New Slide -> select the template for the slide to add. Usually use the template is Title and Content , if your content is diverse then you can choose the appropriate template.

Add Content in Slides: Textboxes, Images, Videos.

To enter more content in the slide you need to add textbox by selecting Insert -> Textbox .

You can also add photos, videos, charts, tables, music to your slides more vividly by selecting the icons displayed on the slide.

Or select Insert -> select the content to add (Table - tables, Pictures - images, Shapes - shapes, Chart - charts, Videos, Audio - music,.).

Text Format

Format text in PowerPoint similar to Word and Excel, highlight the text you need to format, and in the Home tab, select the font, font size and font in the Font section.

Some note:

- Fonts are simple, easy to read, preferably square like: Tahoma, Arial. and cannot use more than 2-3 fonts.

- Font size 28 and above, the font size is about 36-44 points.

- Use a font color that contrasts with the background color eg light text on a dark background, dark text on a light background.

- Avoid using all capital letters because it is difficult to read, do not use too many font colors.

Create Slide Master

Slide Master is an effective tool to help you only need to format once for all slides about font, font size, font color, effects. After starting PowerPoint you should create a master slide to use..

First you select the card View -> Slide Master .

Slide Master appears, you select the first Slide and start common format for all slides: font, font size, font color, background image, logo, effects. Here you just general format but not enter data, because all these formats will be displayed in the slides or when adding new slides.

After formatting is complete, you select the Slide Master tab -> Close Master View to close the Slide Master.

So you still create the slides and enter the content normally, because you have used Slide Master, so when adding new slides, the format will be the same as Slide Master. You can also change the format for some slides that you do not want it to look like the Slide Master format.

Add Effects in PowerPoint

Presentation

Once you have created your PowerPoint presentation, start your presentation. To start the slideshow from the first page, you select the tab Slide show -> From beginning (or key F5 ). You can also slide from the current page by selecting Slide show -> From current slide (or press Shift + F5 ).

During the slideshow, to move to the next slide, select the right arrow key, the down arrow key or click.

To return to the previous slide, select the left arrow key and the up arrow key.

Save File

You press Ctrl + S or File -> Save then enter the file name and select the file type in the Save as type section and click Save to save.

So, you can create a simple PowerPoint, gradually, as you get used to it, you will continue to learn more advanced parts in PowerPoint. Good luck!