Are you new to PowerPoint? This is a step-by-step topic to help you create a basic presentation using PowerPoint

Training: Watch and learn how to create a PowerPoint presentation, add/format text, and add pictures, shapes, and/or charts.

You can run your presentation in PowerPoint for the web with an Internet connection and a web browser. In the bottom-left corner of your slides, note the presentation controls.

Now that you've switched to PowerPoint for Windows from Google Slides, you can start collaborating with these quick instructions on how to create, share, and edit presentations on your own or with …

Save your PowerPoint presentation as a PowerPoint Show (a .ppsx file) so it automatically starts the slide show when the file is opened.

Create a new, blank presentation, start with a template, or open an existing file. When you start with a new, blank presentation, PowerPoint automatically saves it to OneDrive with a default name, such as …

If you're using a newer version of PowerPoint, just connect the monitors and PowerPoint automatically sets up Presenter View for you. If Presenter view appears on the wrong screen, you can swap the …

To start the audio immediately when the slide appears during the presentation, use the options on the Playback tab. To start the audio after a delayed interval of time that you set, use Animation options.

Quickly create a basic presentation in four steps by applying a theme, adding new slides with various slide layouts, and then adding visual interest by applying a slide transition to all slides.

PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts for delivering presentations, for US keyboard layouts.