- Microsoft Powerpoint 2016 15 38 – Microsoft's Presentation Designer Software
- Microsoft Powerpoint 2016 15 38 – Microsoft's Presentation Designer Free
Lesson 3: Creating and Opening Presentations
Introduction
Microsoft Powerpoint 2016 15 38 – Microsoft's Presentation Designer Software
To create a new presentation:
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- Select the File tab to go to Backstage view.
- Select New on the left side of the window, then click Blank Presentation.
- A new presentation will appear.
To create a new presentation from a template:
- Click the File tab to access Backstage view, then select New.
- You can click a suggested search to find templates or use the searchbar to find something more specific. In our example, we'll search for the keyword chalkboard.
- Select a template to review it.
- A preview of the template will appear, along with additional information on how the template can be used.
- Click Create to use the selected template.
- A new presentation will appear with the selected template.
To open an existing presentation:
- Select the File tab to go to Backstage view, then click Open.
- Click Browse. Alternatively, you can choose OneDrive to open files stored on your OneDrive.
- The Open dialog box will appear. Locate and select your presentation, then click Open.
To pin a presentation:
- Select the File tab to go to Backstage view, then click Open. Your Recent Presentations will appear.
- Hover the mouse over the presentation you want to pin, then click the pushpin icon.
- The presentation will stay in the Recent presentations list until it is unpinned. To unpin a presentation, click the pushpin icon again.
Compatibility Mode
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To convert a presentation:
- Click the File tab to access Backstage view.
- Locate and select the Convert command.
- The Save As dialog box will appear. Select the location where you want to save the presentation, enter a file name, and click Save.
- The presentation will be converted to the newest file type.
Challenge!
- Open our practice presentation.
- Notice that the presentation opens in Compatibility Mode. Convert it to the 2016 file format. If a dialog box appears asking if you would like to close and reopen the file in order to see the new features, choose Yes.
- In Backstage view, pin a file or folder.
Have you ever wanted to create professional Slides in a few seconds? Do you want your Slides to have high quality? All we must do, is to Insert an Image in a Presentation and straight away Designer will provide us with several DesignIdeas. We just select the one that we need and we are finished. By using Designer, we have more time for us to concentrate on our Presentation. Below you can see how DesignIdeas work in PowerPoint2016.
First of all we must Insert a Picture in our Presentation as shown in the image below.
Once the image is inserted in our Presentation and it is selected as shown below, the DesignIdeas task pane appears at the right of our screen.
The DesignIdeasTaskPane, offers a variety of ideas on how we want our Slide to be designed. As shown in the image below, we can see the image on the left and the placeholder on the right. In other Slides, we also notice the image as transparent and being adjusted as the background of our Slide. Layouts lab 3 2 2 – templates for keynote templates.
Below, we can see more DesignIdeas that are available for us in order to choose from. All we have to do is to select one DesignIdea and it will be applied on the current Slide.
Dropshare 4 9 3 – secure file sharing tool. In the image below, I have applied on the Slide one of the DesignIdeas.
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In the next image, I have applied on the Slide a different DesignIdea.
The Design Idea feature in PowerPoint 2016 is quite amazing. Saving us alot of time in order for us to concentrate more on what we want in our Presentation.
Below you can check out the video describing the Design Ideas feature in PowerPoint 2016.