PowerPoint for the web basics

With PowerPoint for the web, you create presentations right in your internet browser. Let’s walk through the steps for creating a basic presentation:

• Pick a theme
• Pick a layout for your slides
• Add text
• Add a picture
• Add transitions between slides
• Present your slide show
• Share your presentation online
• Print your slides

Pick a theme

PowerPoint comes with “themes,” sets of professionally designed colors and layouts. Just pick a theme, and all your slides will follow that look.

1. On the Design tab, pick a theme.
   

2. Every theme has variations, so you can pick a different color scheme.

   

Pick a layout for your slides

Each slide layout has placeholders for text, pictures, charts, shapes, and more. Pick the layout that works best with the content you plan to present.

1. On the Home tab, select Slide Layout.
2. Pick a layout.

Add text

To add text to your slide:

1. Select inside a text placeholder and start typing.

2. For text bullets, place your cursor in the line of text, and on the Home tab, pick a bullet style.

Add a picture

1. On the Insert tab, select Pictures.
   

2. Choose how you want to insert your image.

3. In the Choose File to Upload box, find a picture, and select Open.

Add transitions between slides

For smooth, animated shifts between slides, add transitions.

1. On the Transitions tab, select a transition.

   

2. To apply the transition to all the slides in your presentation, select Apply To All.

Present your slide show

You can run your PowerPoint for the web presentation with an Internet connection and a web browser.

To start your slide show:

1. On the Slide Show tab, select From Beginning.

To manage your slide show:

1. Go to the controls in the bottom-left corner in the slide show and do any of the following:

Select	To
	Go to the previous slide
	Go to the next slide
	View all slides
	Turn subtitles on or off
	End the slide show

To go to any slide in the presentation:

1. Right-click the slide, and select Go to Slide.

2. Enter the slide number in the Slide box.

Share your presentation online

As you work on your presentation in OneDrive, you might want to share it so other people can see it or work on it with you.

1. Select the Share button in the top-right corner of the ribbon.

2. Select Copy link.... This copies the link.

3. To manage permissions, select Settings and do one of the followings:

   • In the Link settings dialog box, under More settings, select Can view from the dropdownn.

     

   • To let others view and edit a copy of your presentation, select Can edit.

     

4. Select Close.

5. Paste the URL into an email, chat session, or social networking site.

Print your slides

You can print your slides and use them as handouts, or you can add your speaker notes to them and use them as a visual aid when you present.

1. Go to File > Print > Print full page slides.

   

2. In the Print window that appears, under Layout, select Landscape. Set any other print layout option you want.

3. For more options and customization, select More settings.

   Note

   If you need help picking print options, select the Help link in the upper-right corner of the Print box.

4. Select Print.

5. Save the PDF file in the desired location.