Click on File Ribbon and Select New.

From the Screen displayed, Choose Blank Presentation.

You can also create a new workbook by using the shortcut
keys Ctrl +

To add a new slide, just click the New Slide command in the Home ribbon.

You may choose a specific slide layout as the list of choices descends from the New Slide button.

Deleting a Slide

Select slide in the Slide Pane and then press the Delete key on the keyboard.

Creating Text

Simply click inside a textbox / placeholder then start typing.

Cutting, Copying and Pasting Text

Select text to edit then, from the HOME ribbon, click on the cut or copy button. Pasting text will place the item in a new desired location.

Remember you can right-click selected text and click cut or copy, just like you can with slides. The Ctrl + X, Ctrl + C, and Ctrl + V keyboard shortcuts work the same as cut, copy, and paste, respectively.

Using the Format Painter

The Format Painter   allows you to copy the formatting of text or shapes.

Select the original text / shape à click on Format Painter à Highlight the destination text/shape.

You can use the Format Painter more than once.

Select the original text / shape à double-click on Format Painter à apply onto destination text / shape à click on Format Painter once more to disengage.

PowerPoint resizes text as you type to fit in a placeholder. Both font size and line spacing will be adjusted until all the text fits (to a minimum font size of 8 points). You may see click  to switch on the options of the AutoFit to adjust text appearance on the slide.

The Clipboard is the first group, or “chunk,” on the Home ribbon. The Clipboard is associated with cut, copy, paste and the Format Painter.  Cut and copied items are stored in the Clipboard, a UNIT of the computer’s memory.

You will notice a small icon in the lower right-hand corner of the Clipboard chunk. Click this button to open the Clipboard task pane, a listing on the left side of the screen that shows the last 24 cut/copied items from any Microsoft Office 2013 program that is open:

Select the slide in the Slide Pane and then click Cut  to cut the slide completely out of the presentation or Copy  to duplicate the slide. After you have chosen to cut or copy, click in the Slide Pane where you want the slide to go and click Paste.

To move a slide’s position, just simply drag it in between two slides in the Slide Pane.

There are two shortcuts you can use to perform cut, copy, and paste operations. You can right-click on a slide in the Slide Pane to see these commands:

You can also use keyboard shortcuts.

• To cut something, highlight it and press Ctrl + X.
• To copy, Ctrl + C.
• And to paste, Ctrl + V.

You may reuse slides from existing files to save time in duplicating slides.

In the Home ribbon, click on New Slide à Reuse Slides (last option)

Then in the Task Pane (right side of Window) à select Browse File à choose the file and slides to be inserted.

Use the outline view to organise the text content in each slide. As you right click on the selection of text, a list of outline options appear.

Promote raises the item level of a list.  For a level one item, it will be promoted as a new slide.

Demote descends the item level of a list.

Save

This allows you to update any changes within the presentation file. 

Click on the Save icon on the Quick Access toolbar or press
Ctrl + S to save any file updates. You may also find Save Command in the File Ribbon.

Save As

This allows you to save an extra copy of the file with the changes on file name, folder location and file type.

Click File Ribbon, select Save As. The Save dialog will display.

Select a location and name.

In this section, you will learn how to:

• Formatting
• Bullets and Numbering
• Alignment
• Proofing

Font

Select text then select the formatting tools from the HOME ribbon, or right click on your selection to bring up the toolbar.

Paragraph

The Paragraph group on the Home ribbon displays the common paragraph commands such as bullets and numbering, indenting, justification, line spacing, etc.