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Getting Started with PowerPoint

This tutorial describes tasks that you do almost every time you run the program. It explains how to start PowerPoint and create, save, open, and close presentations.

You find out what document properties are and what PowerPoint's new XML format is all about. Throughout this tutorial are tips, tricks, and shortcuts for making basic PowerPoint tasks go more smoothly.

Finally, we offer some shortcut commands that you will find extremely useful.

In this tutorial:

  1. Starting PowerPoint
  2. Creating a New Presentation
  3. Swapping one template for another
  4. Saving Your Presentation Files
  5. Opening and Closing Presentations
  6. Entering the Document Properties
  7. Understanding the New PowerPoint XML Format
  8. Shortcut Commands Worth Knowing