Insert a new slide using the title and Content layout immediately after Slide 1
In this sample chapter from MOS Study Guide for Microsoft PowerPoint Exam MO-300, author Joan Lambert covers the skills relating to creating and managing slides (rather than slide content). Show
The skills tested in this section of the Microsoft Office Specialist exam for Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 relate to creating and managing slides (rather than slide content). Specifically, the following objectives are associated with this set of skills:
As you build your presentation by inserting slides, each slide has a specific slide layout that governs the layout of the content on the slide. You can modify the slide layout and automatically rearrange the slide content at any time. If the information you want to share with your audience already exists in another presentation, you can merge the content of the existing slides into your presentation so that the slides take on the theme colors and fonts of the presentation. You can hide slides that you don’t want to show in a slideshow (and don’t want to delete) or apply specific background colors, patterns, or textures to individual slides to make them stand out from the themed content of the presentation. You can easily display identifying information in the header and footer areas of slides. By organizing related slides into sections, you can identify and more easily manage groups of slides. This chapter guides you in studying methods of inserting, modifying, ordering, and grouping slides. Objective 2.1: Insert slidesIt can often be simpler to organize the content, or at least an outline, of a presentation in a document rather than directly in PowerPoint. Creating a presentation outline within a document allows you to see more of the content at one time and consider the presentation content at a higher level. After transferring the content to PowerPoint, you can concentrate on the individual slides without worrying about the presentation flow. Import Word document outlinesIt isn’t necessary to manually transfer a presentation outline from a document to individual slides. To create an unformatted presentation that includes slides, you can import a text file or Word document that contains the slide information. PowerPoint creates unformatted Title And Content slides corresponding to the slide titles specified in the source file. When creating a presentation from text file content, you can create only slide titles, because text files don’t support formatting options that would inform PowerPoint of how you want to use the content. When creating a presentation from Word file content, however, you can format the content by applying multiple heading levels. PowerPoint creates slides, slide titles, and multiple levels of bulleted content based on the heading levels assigned within the Word document. PowerPoint uses only the headings and no other document content. Paragraphs styled as Title or Heading1 become slide titles, and paragraphs styled as Heading2 through Heading9 become bullet points. If you save an outline containing styled headings as a Word document (with the .doc or .docx extension) or a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file, you can create a new presentation by opening the outline from PowerPoint, or you can add the outline slides to the existing presentation by importing the outline. To prepare a Word document as a presentation outline
To create a presentation based on a Word outline
To insert slides based on a Word outline into an existing presentation
Insert slides from another presentationIf the slides you want to use already exist in another presentation, you can easily incorporate them into a new presentation. PowerPoint offers multiple ways to reuse slides from one presentation in another:
You can reuse slides from any presentation that you can browse to from File Explorer To copy slides from an open presentation
To reuse slides from an existing presentation
Insert slides and select slide layoutsWhen you insert a slide into a presentation, PowerPoint inserts it with the default layout immediately after the current slide. If you want to add a slide with a different layout, select the layout you want from the New Slide gallery. The available layouts and their design depend on the template used to create the presentation. Thumbnails depict the content of each slide layout After you insert a slide, you can apply a different layout at any time, or if you make changes to the slide structure, you can reset the layout. If you want to insert a slide that is similar to an existing slide, you can duplicate the existing slide and then change it instead of having to create the slide from scratch. To add slides
To apply a slide layout
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