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Microsoft Powerpoint

Create a presentation

PowerPoint creates slide shows containing text, images and videos, useful for many purposes. Businesses present products and services to customers, teachers present course materials, and families show slides of loved ones on anniversaries and birthdays.

Use a template

As with Word and Excel, PowerPoint has a large collection of templates into which you can drop your text, images and videos. Click File>New and you will see a few of the templates (Fig 1), but most of them are stored online and you must search for them.

Enter a word or phrase into the search box or click one of the suggestions below it and the matching templates are displayed. Find one that most closely matches what you need and click it. An info box is displayed that contains a larger thumbnail image. To see the various slides within a presentation, click the forward and back buttons below the thumbnail image of

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