Microsoft Powerpint Basic [Choose a Theme} | Technical learning is Here

When you open PowerPoint, you’ll see some built-in themes and templates. A theme is a slide design that contains matching colors, fonts, and special effects like shadows, reflections, and more.

Shows the Create New presentation from Theme dialog in PowerPoint

On the File tab of the Ribbon, select New, and then choose a theme.

PowerPoint shows you a preview of the theme, with four color variations to choose from on the right side.
Click Create, or pick a color variation and then click Create.

Insert a new slide

On the Home tab, click the bottom half of New Slide, and pick a slide layout.

Read more: Add, rearrange, and delete slides.

Save your presentation

On the File tab, choose Save.
Pick or browse to a folder.
In the File name box, type a name for your presentation, and then choose Save.

Note: If you frequently save files to a certain folder, you can ‘pin’ the path so that it is always available (as shown below).

Tip: Save your work as you go. Press Ctrl+S often.

Add text

Select a text placeholder, and begin typing.
Shows adding text to a text field in PowerPoint

Format your text

Select the text.
Under Drawing Tools, choose Format.
Do one of the following:
- To change the color of your text, choose Text Fill, and then choose a color.
- To change the outline color of your text, choose Text Outline, and then choose a color.
- To apply a shadow, reflection, glow, bevel, 3-D rotation, a transform, choose Text Effects, and then choose the effect you want.