Auto-Content Wizard: This will walk you through several screens that offer you various choices such as the presentation type, style and options. You can then use the preformatted templates based on your selections.

1. After you make your choices in the wizard and click Finish, you are presented with an automatically made presentation. Each slide then has descriptive placeholders telling you what content to put onto each slide.
2. Highlight each placeholder and replace it with your content.

Design Template: This option allows you to choose designs template, or presentation style. If you choose a design template you are given a page with a certain theme.

1. Choose the layout you want on this page, add your content, and then from the Insert Menu choose New Slide to bring up the next page of your presentation.
2. If you choose a Presentations theme, such as Generic, you will be given a whole presentation that has each section of the presentation listed on the left side of your screen. Clicking on a section on the left side will bring up the corresponding slide on the right, and you can then add your content.

Blank Presentation: This option is the most flexible but gives you the least help. You choose the kind of layout you want on a single blank slide and then start building your presentation from that.

Outlines: When you create a presentation in Outline view you only see the text of the presentation in outline form. This lets you focus on the content instead of the appearance. You can switch to the Outline view even if you have created a presentation using another method.