Chicago Housing Authority Help Desk

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...

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

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. ...

Select the text. Under Drawing Tools, choose Format. Do one of the following: To change the color of your text, choose Text Fill, and the...

On the Insert tab, do one of the following: To insert a picture that is saved on your local drive or an internal server, choose Pictures, browse for the ...

You can add shapes to illustrate your slide.  On the Insert tab, select Shapes, and then select a shape from the menu that appears. In the slide area,...

Slides are best when you don’t cram in too much information. You can put helpful facts and notes in the speaker notes, and refer to them as you present. ...