When you open PowerPoint 2000, the PowerPoint dialog box presents three ways to create a presentation:

AutoContent Wizard. Creates a slide set within the theme you select.

Design Template. Creates slides from pre-designed slide sets for standard presentations.

Blank Presentation. Creates slides that you design from scratch.

You can also open an existing presentation. If the PowerPoint dialog box has been disabled, you can start a new presentation in any of the ways listed above from the File menu. You can create a new presentation at any time even if you have others open. Using a wizard or template when you create a new presentation can save you time.

USING THE AUTOCONTENT WIZARD

The AutoContent Wizard helps you create a presentation by leading you through some basic questions. You respond to questions asked by the Wizard, and the Wizard uses your answers to automatically lay out and format the presentation. PowerPoint 2000 then selects the best style and built-in outline to suit the presentation.

Create A Presentation Using The AutoContent Wizard

1. Open PowerPoint 2000.

2. Select the AutoContent Wizard option and then click OK.

3. Read about the AutoContent Wizard and then click Next.

4. Select Generic and then click Next.

5. Select the On-screen Presentation option and then click Next.

6. Click in the Presentation title box and then type Class Overview as a title for the presentation.

7. Click in the Footer box, type the class title and then click Next. This includes the class title at the bottom of each slide.

8. Click Finish to exit the AutoContent Wizard. The first slide appears in Normal view.

9. On the File menu, click Save.

10. Select a folder, name the presentation and then click OK.

VIEWING PRESENTATIONS

There are three ways to view your presentations in PowerPoint. The views are accessed from the View menu, or from the buttons in the lower-left corner of the PowerPoint 2000 screen.

**Normal view is the view to use when you are designing a presentation slide by slide. In Normal view, you see the Outline in the left pane, the slide in the upper-right pane, and the notes in the lower-right pane. The Normal view makes it easy to organize a presentation in outline format and add notes to each slide.

**Slide Sorter view shows the entire set of slides on the screen, so that you can check the order and consistency of the slides.

**Slide Show view puts the presentation together as a slide show, so you can view the finished presentation, complete with sound and animation.