Training: Watch and learn how to create a PowerPoint presentation, add/format text, and add pictures, shapes, and/or charts.

Set your PowerPoint presentation to run itself, advance when viewers click, or play in a loop.

Are you new to PowerPoint? This is a step-by-step topic to help you create a basic presentation using PowerPoint

Control the effect, duration, or sound used for a slide transition, and the time to spend on a slide before advancing to the next.

Quickly create a basic presentation in four steps by applying a theme, adding new slides with various slide layouts, and then adding visual interest by applying a slide transition to all slides.

In the Slide Size dialog box, select Portrait, then select OK. In the next dialog box, you can select Maximize to take full advantage of the space available, or you can select Ensure Fit to make sure …

This version of PowerPoint has a default size of 16:9 for new presentation, but you can create a different default for yourself. (If you want a different default slide size than what's listed there, select Custom …

You can add a solid or gradient color, a pattern, or an image as the background of a slide or an entire presentation.

With the audio icon selected on the slide, on the Playback tab, select Play in Background. Play in Background makes the audio file start automatically during a slide show and also makes the audio …

You can add new slides, change the order of the slides, and delete slides you don’t need.