Title: How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Step-by-Step) | % How to make a PowerPoint Presentation (Step-by-Step)
Headings: How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Step-by-Step)
How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Step-by-Step)
1. Start with a blank document
The PowerPoint Interface
The PowerPoint Ribbon
The Slides Pane
The Slide Area
The Notes Pane
The PowerPoint Ribbon
The Slides Pane
The Slide Area
The Notes Pane
2. Start adding your content
3. Insert more slides into your presentation
4. Add content to your slides
Use Designer to generate more layout ideas
5. Change the overall design (optional)
Pick your PowerPoint slide size
Select a PowerPoint theme
Change the overall background
Change your color palette
Change your PowerPoint fonts
6. Add animations & transitions (optional)
Adding PowerPoint animations
Adding Transitions
7. Save your PowerPoint presentation
Save your PowerPoint as a PDF
Save your presentation as a template
8. Print your presentation
Conclusion
What’s Next?

Content: To learn all about working with speaker notes in PowerPoint, read our guide here. Now that you have a basic grasp of the PowerPoint interface you have at your disposal, it’s time to make your presentation. 2. Start adding your content
Note: Once you become proficient at making presentations, you may want to start with setting the design ( see step #5 in this article ). For the purposes of this tutorial, we’ll start by inserting content and slides. Notice that on the Slide Area, there are two rectangles with dotted outlines. These are called Placeholders and they’re set on the template in the Slide Master View (learn more about PowerPoint templates in this article here
As the prompt text suggests, you can click into each placeholder and start typing text. Note: For the purposes of this example, I will create a presentation based on the content in the Starbucks 2018 Global Social Impact Report, which is available to the public on their website.