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

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

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.

Add a hyperlink that links to a place in the same presentation, a different presentation, to a web page or site, a new file, and even an email address.

Learn how to use AI in Microsoft 365 Copilot to add an image (including a branded image) to a PowerPoint presentation.

Select New blank presentation, open a Recent file, select one of the themes, or start with a presentation template. To name the presentation, select the title at the top and type a name.

See example prompts and learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot can make a PowerPoint presentation (with images and notes) that’s based on your project plan or another file.

You can use a self-running presentation to run unattended in a booth or kiosk at a trade show or convention, or you can save it as a video and send it to a client.

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Learn how to add video to PowerPoint. You can add, format, and record video in PowerPoint and export your presentation as a video.