Getting Your Bearings

PowerPoint
AutoContent Wizard
Microsoft PowerPoint has a little used feature, the AutoContent Wizard which can
help you quickly create complete presentations in just a few steps. The wizard
walks you through a series of steps while providing ideas and suggestions for
presentation type, delivery format, and slide options. You can then complete
customize the content, design and look of the presentation to suit your needs.
Create a Complete Presentation in just a few steps.
2. Open up PowerPoint
3. Go to the File menu, click New.
4. In the task pane, click From
AutoContent Wizard.
5. The wizard below will take you through the necessary steps. Click Next.
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6. When you see the Presentation Type wizard (below) click on the all button
to show you the complete list of presentation types.
7. Choose a presentation from
the list and click Next. Note:
It does not necessarily have
to be specific to your content
because all presentations are
fully customizable.
8. Leave the output type selected and choose next or Finish.
9. On the following screen you can type in a title for you presentation and
choose next or finish.
10. You new presentation will display in PowerPoint. From this point you can
now customize the template presentation text with your own, change the
design or color scheme to suit your needs and add more slides if you need
to.
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