Create Your First PowerPoint Presentation

Topic at a glance

Any time you communicate with a group of people, you’re giving a presentation. The more important the message, the clearer you want the presentation to be. Also, the larger the audience, the easier the message must be to grasp. You can communicate information better and more easily with a PowerPoint presentation, a series of slides that you create by using PowerPoint. Before you get started on the presentation, you should know what you’ll need. You may want to use one or more of the following items:

  Slides, displayed electronically (using a computer), or in standard 35mm format (using a slide projector), or printed on overhead transparencies or paper.

  Printed handouts for the audience.

  Notes the presenter can use for reference.