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This video tutorial gives an introduction on starting to use PowerPoint 2013 for the first time. Take a look at some of the templates and themes where you can start filling in designed-but-not-filled presentations. There is also a "Take a tour" feature, which is designed specially for those who are new to PowerPoint 2013. Find out more about PowerPoint workspace, the title bar, the ribbon, the quick access toolbar, where to find the thumbnails of the PowerPoint slides, how to get into backstage view, and how to close and reopen a presentation. Watch this tutorial and let's get you started on your first PowerPoint presentation!

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Welcome back to our course on PowerPoint 2013. The very first thing you see when you start up PowerPoint 2013 for the first time will be something similar to this and in fact this screen shows you one of the main changes in PowerPoint 2013 compared to earlier versions because on this screen you have presented to you a number of different ways of getting started working on a presentation.

So let’s start on the left of the screen here. You would normally have a list of recent presentations that you’ve worked on. Now since this is the first time that I’ve launched this installation of PowerPoint 2013, the list of recent presentations is empty. Below that is a button that enables me to open other presentations. This means that I can access one of the presentations that I’ve got stored on my computer or on a touch device or on a network drive.

On the right over here, I’m basically looking at ways of starting a new presentation. Now this particular entry here which has a caption Blank presentation, very often will be the one that I choose if I want to start with a completely empty PowerPoint presentation that’s the option that I’d choose. Below that I have a whole list of templates. These are if you like designed but not filled presentations. So each of these will have a certain style and the style will include things like color schemes, fonts, font sizes, and the like. And there’s quite a long list of these templates available from the start screen. However, if you don’t want or you don’t like those presentations, if you look at the note at the bottom “Not finding what you’re looking for”, use the Search box at the top to find more templates and themes. And up here you have a search box. You can type in a subject and search for a template to suit the content or the style that you’re looking for. Now just under that search box there’s a list of suggested searches so, Business, Calendars, Charts and Diagrams, Education, Medical. They’re typical kinds of presentation that you might want. A very popular one is over here on the right, Photo Albums. So you can enter a term here, search for it, and try to find an appropriate template, and we’ll be coming back to templates in detail later on.

Let me go back up to the start again. There is also a Welcome to PowerPoint tour available here and you can click on that and take the tour. And if you’re new to PowerPoint I think that’s a very good place to go.

In the very top right hand corner of this screen, you see a set of buttons that are pretty much the standard ones that you see in a Windows application. So we have a Close button. We have a Maximize button which makes the window fit the screen, Minimize button that normally shrinks the window down to sit on your taskbar and the question mark in PowerPoint 2013 gives access to Help. We’ll be coming back to PowerPoint Help a little bit later on in the course.

Below that set of buttons, you can see details of the current user including a Microsoft account if there is one. And that’s very important in relation to two or three things in PowerPoint 2013 and in particular in relation to the use of SkyDrive. We’ll come back to that later on, but obviously once you are using PowerPoint 2013 as when you see a name and an email address there, they will not be the same as mine.


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