Create a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint
Learn more about making your presentations look great with Copilot in PowerPoint. Select the Copilot button in the Home tab of the ribbon. Enter your prompt or select Create presentation from file to create a first draft of your presentation using your theme or template.
Present with real-time, automatic captions or subtitles in ...
Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible. Manually add closed captions or subtitles in PowerPoint. Let PowerPoint display your spoken words on-screen as you present with live captions, and even translate your words into another language with live subtitles.
Create a presentation in PowerPoint - Microsoft Support
Create a presentation in PowerPoint. Create presentations from scratch or start with a professionally designed, fully customizable template from Microsoft Create. Tip: If you have Microsoft Copilot it can help you create a presentation, add slides or images, and more.
Basic tasks for creating a PowerPoint presentation
Use visuals to help express your message. Pictures, charts, graphs, and SmartArt graphics provide visual cues for your audience to remember. Add meaningful art to complement the text and messaging on your slides. As with text, however, avoid …
Add closed captions or subtitles to media in PowerPoint - Microsoft …
In PowerPoint for Windows, macOS, and web, you can add closed captions or subtitles to videos and audio files in your presentations. Adding closed captions makes your presentation accessible to a larger audience, including people with hearing disabilities and those who speak languages other than the one in your video.
Add, edit, or remove a placeholder on a slide layout
In PowerPoint, a placeholder is a pre-formatted container on a slide for content (text, graphics, or video). The pre-set formatting makes it easier to format slides consistently. You format a placeholder in Slide Master view. Then you use the placeholder—add content …
View or change the properties for an Office file - Microsoft Support
Document properties, also known as metadata, are details about a file that describe or identify it. They include details such as title, author name, subject, and keywords that identify the document's topic or contents. If you include the document properties for your files, you can easily organize and identify them later.
Open XML Formats and file name extensions - Microsoft Support
Microsoft Office uses the XML-based file formats, such as .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx. These formats and file name extensions apply to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Choose the right view for the task in PowerPoint
PowerPoint provides views and settings to help you specify what you want to print (slides, handouts, or notes pages) and how you want those jobs to print (in color, grayscale, black and white, with frames, and more). Slide Sorter view gives you a view of your slides in thumbnail form.
Modern comments in PowerPoint - Microsoft Support
Comments in files generally represent questions, ideas, or concerns about the content. When those have been addressed, modern comments allow you to mark that thread as resolved. Resolved comment threads won't appear in the margin (though you can still find them in the comment pane) so you can focus on the comment threads that still have open ...
Keyboard shortcuts for the File menu in Microsoft 365 ...
Use the File menu keyboard shortcuts. Frequently used shortcuts. Create a new Microsoft 365 file. List, open, and search for files. Save and rename Microsoft 365 files. Print Microsoft 365 files. Create a PDF or XPS file or change the file type. Protect, …