Adding New Slides to the Presentation
Different ways to add slides and navigate through the slides in a presentation are:
To add new slides to the presentation, select the Insert à New Slide command
To add a new slide, hold down the Ctrl key and press the M key
To scroll through each slide, click the down arrow of the vertical scroll bar
Deleting Slides in Presentation
Power Point enables you to:
Delete a slides in a presentation
Delete all the slides in a presentation
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Delete a slide
Delete all slides
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1. Click the slide that needs to be deleted in the Slide Pane
2. Select the Edit àDelete Slide command to delete the slide
Select View àSlide Sorter command
Click on any thumbnail image of the slide
Select Edit à Select All command to select all the slides in the slide sorter view
Select the Edit à Delete Slide command to delete the slide
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Copying Text in Presentation
Power Point enables you to:
Copy text or objects such as image from one slide to another or from one presentation to another
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Copy a slide
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Select the text that needs to be copied
Select the Edit àCopy command
Alternatively, holding down the Ctrl key, press C key
You can view the contents of the clipboard by selecting the Edit àOffice Clipboard command.
Place the cursor wherever you need to copy the text
Select the Edit à Paste command to paste the text that was copied.
Alternatively, holding down the Ctrl, press the V key
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Moving Text in Presentation
To move text, perform the following steps:
Select the text that needs to be moved
Select the Edit àCut command from the menu bar
Alternatively, you can cut text by selecting the text and holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the X key
Place the cursor wherever you need to insert the text
Select the Edit àPaste command to paste the cut text
Alternatively, you can paste the copied text by holding down the Ctrl and pressing the V key
Alternatively, you can move text by selecting the text and drag it to the location where you need to insert the text. This is known as Drop-and-Drop
Inserting and Modifying the Text Boxes
In Power Point, you can:
To insert a text box, perform the following steps:
Select the Insert àText Box command. This changes the mouse pointer to an elongated cross ( )
Click the mouse button at a point where you want to start the text box and drag the mouse pointer to draw the text box of the required size
Alternatively, you can use the Text Box button in the Drawing toolbar to insert a text box
Once the text box is drawn, you might need to resize the text box according to the text content
To resize the text box perform the following steps:
Click within the text box to select it.
The text box is displayed with the small circles at each corner and edge. These are called handles.
Click on any of the handles and drag to the required size.
Alternatively, you can move the
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