The audience must be able to read your slides from a distance. Generally speaking, a font size smaller than 30 might be too difficult for the audience to see. You want your audience to listen to you present your information, instead of reading the screen.
Use bullets or short sentences, and try to keep each item to one line. Pictures, charts, graphs, and SmartArt graphics provide visual cues for your audience to remember. Add meaningful art to complement the text and messaging on your slides.
Use only enough text to make label elements in a chart or graph comprehensible. Choose an appealing, consistent template or theme that is not too eye-catching. You don't want the background or design to detract from your message. However, you also want to provide a contrast between the background color and text color.
The built-in themes in PowerPoint set the contrast between a light background with dark colored text or dark background with light colored text. For more information about how to use themes, see Apply a theme to add color and style to your presentation. To earn and maintain the respect of your audience, always check the spelling and grammar in your presentation. Get started. Basic tasks for creating a PowerPoint presentation. Save your presentation On the File tab, choose Save.
Pick or browse to a folder. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? The next thing to decide is how you want your background to look for the entire presentation.
Instead, right-click it and select Apply to Selected Slides. After you change the background for your entire presentation, you can easily adjust the background for an individual slide. Each one of these options provides you with ways to make your backgrounds look beautiful… as well as some caveats.
Note: To learn everything there is to know about PowerPoint backgrounds, including where to find free ones online, read our backgrounds guide here.
You can explore these options to find the PowerPoint background that best fits your presentation. Each PowerPoint theme comes with its own color palette. By default, the Office theme includes the Office color palette. This affects the colors you are presented with when you format any element within your presentation text, shapes, SmartArt, etc. The good news is that the colors here are easy to change. To switch color palettes, simply:. You can choose among the pre-built color palettes from Office, or you can customize them to create your own.
Note: To learn more about how to create a custom color palette, as part of a custom theme, check out this article here. Each PowerPoint theme comes with its own font combination. By default, the Office theme includes the Office font combination.
This affects the fonts that are assigned to all text in your presentation. The good news is that the font pairings are easy to change. To switch your Theme Fonts, simply:. You can choose among the pre-built fonts from Office, or you can customize them to create your own. To learn more about how to create your own custom font combinations as part of create a custom PowerPoint theme, read our guide here.
To see a list of the safest PowerPoint fonts, read our article here. Note: For more tips on how to make compelling PowerPoint design, see this article with presentation design tips that work. The final step to make a PowerPoint compelling, is to consider using animations and transitions.
These are by no means necessary to a good presentation, but they may be helpful in your situation. PowerPoint has an incredibly robust animations engine designed to power your creativity. You can add animations to multiple objects at one time by selecting them all first and then applying the animation to them. Note: To learn more ways to launch and run your slide show including keyboard shortcuts , read our guide here.
To adjust the settings of your animations, explore the options in the Effect Options , Advanced Animation and the Timing areas of the Animation tab. Note: To see how to make objects appear and disappear in your slides by clicking a button, read our guide here. The best way to manage lots of animations on your slide is the Animation Pane. To open the animations pane, simply. Note: To see examples of advanced PowerPoint animations that we recommend using the animations pane for, see our PowerPoint animation tutorials here.
Transitions are movements that you can apply to whole slides, which will show between two slides. To adjust the settings of the transition, explore the options in the Timing area of the Transitions tab.
You can also add the same transition to multiple slides. To do that, select their thumbnails in the Slide Area and apply the transition to them. There are three ways to preview your PowerPoint transitions just like your animations :.
To learn more ways to launch and run your slide show, see our detailed article here. Note: In , PowerPoint added a cool new transition, called Morph. It operates a bit differently from other transitions. For a detailed tutorial on how to use the cool Morph transition, see our step-by-step article here.
Your presentation is saved to that location on your computer. Now, you can open, present, and send this presentation to others. Below is an example of what your presentation will look like in a file folder..
This is the standard way to save a presentation. However, there may be a situation where you want to save your presentation as a different file type. Note: Keep in mind that if you save your presentation as a PDF, you will lose all interactivity within your presentation including animations, transitions and multimedia.
Hyperlinks, however, will still work. To learn all about converting PowerPoint to PDF and what types of content you will lose in the conversion process, read our guide here. Clicking save, a PDF version of your presentation will be saved to the location you selected on your computer, with the name you gave it. You can continue working on your PowerPoint if you wish, as the two files are completely independent. Note: To learn more about converting your PowerPoint presentations into the PDF file format and the types of content you will lose in the conversion process, read our guide here.
Note In this code, the sTemplate and sPic constants represent the full path and filename to a PowerPoint template and a picture, respectively. Modify these paths as needed to use a template or picture that is installed on your system.
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