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During this Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 training tutorial, we?re going to create a new presentation and this is the first completely new presentation that we?ve worked on. To get started, we click on File to go into Backstage View, then select New, and as you?ve already seen, there are a number of templates available each with a name like Celestial or Integral or Ion, and the very first item in the list here is Blank presentation and on this occasion we?re going to use Blank presentation.


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Hello again and welcome back to our course on PowerPoint 2013. In this section, we’re going to create a new presentation and this is the first completely new presentation that we’ve worked on. To get started, we click on File to go into Backstage View, then select New, and as you’ve already seen, there are a number of templates available each with a name like Celestial or Integral or Ion, and the very first item in the list here is Blank presentation and on this occasion we’re going to use Blank presentation.

Now before we really get going on this, I need to point out a couple of things to you. First of all, when we say Blank presentation there is actually quite a lot of information setup already when you select Blank presentation. It may not be a very colorful template but there is still a template involved, as you will see. And the second thing to point out is that in this section and the next one when we’re working on the first presentation, I’m going to show you some of the main tools and techniques for creating presentations, but almost without exception we’ll be coming back to them and looking at them in a lot more detail in later sections of the course. So if in some of the things we do in this section and the next one it all seems a little bit sort of quick or that there are many unanswered questions left behind, don’t worry because we should be covering all of those unanswered questions later on in the course.

Now when you create a new presentation, it’s given a default name by PowerPoint 2013. The name will normally be Presentation 1 or Presentation 2 or something like that and the name appears in the title bar at the top. The first thing I do with any new presentation is to save it with a name of my choice. So I go into File, Save As, choose My Computer, and I’ll browse to a folder where I’m going to keep the working files on this course. Now this is a different folder to the one where I’m keeping the sample files that you have as well. So I’m going to browse to that folder now and I’m going to give this presentation a suitable name. So I’ve located the folder. It’s currently empty. I’ve typed in a file name. I’ve called it Demo presentation 1.pptx. Whenever you’re saving a file in PowerPoint 2013, you will need to make sure that you have the correct file type selected. For a standard regular PowerPoint presentation, the extension will be .pptx. If you look at the drop down to the right as Save As type, there are actually many types of document that you can save in PowerPoint 2013. For instance, if you look at the third option in the list here, there is a PowerPoint 97 to 2003 presentation format, a .ppt format, which is the old format presentation.

I’ll talk about that briefly a little bit later on. But you can also save a presentation, for example, as a PDF file, a Portable Document Format file. You can also if you are programming, you are including program code in a PowerPoint presentation, it becomes a PowerPoint Macro Enabled presentation, a .pptm file. But for the moment, we only really need to look at .pptx files. I’ll talk about some of the others later. So when I’ve put in my name, made sure I’ve got the right file type, I click on Save. And as you would expect, once I’ve saved I’ve now got the correct title for the presentation on the title bar at the top of the window there.

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