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Customise how your Powerpoint presentations are saved

There is an option to customise your Save settings in PowerPoint, so that it will automatically save your presentation.  This is a great security net, saving you from the “oh no” moments when you close a document without saving.  And, it’s easy to do.

From the Backstage view, select the Options icon.

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The options button is small, but oh, so important…

Select the Options button, and a menu comes up for you to then select Save.

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From the Save options, you can customise your autosave – protecting your work…phew.

Now you can tick the autosave options, set the Autorecover to save every 10 minutes (or fewer if you want)…and “Keep the last autosaved version” option, which give that extra back up.

In a couple of minutes, you have managed to protect your hard work with Powerpoint remembering to save the presentation if you forget.

This skill is part of Powerpoint 2007 training and applies to other versions of Powerpoint.  To explore the skills you can gain in just one day…take a look at our Powerpoint courses https://www.stl-training.co.uk/powerpoint-2007-introduction.php

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How to add slides and add layouts (Powerpoint Training)

I have created a blank presentation, using the File menu, and then selected New, and Blank presentation

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Create a new file using the File menu, select New, then Blank Document.

PowerPoint gives me one slide.  Now I know I’m going to need at least three slides for my presentation, so I want to add two more slides.

I use the ribbon, I’m already in the Home tab, so I select the New Slides icon, if I click on the picture of a new slide, one new slide is inserted.

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The Insert Slide icon makes it really easy to add to your presentation.

I get a new blank slide.  I want to add another one, so I click on the icon again, and now I have three pages in my presentation.

Then next job is to add the layout to my new slides.
I select the the second slide, and use my right mouse click to bring up some options for formatting, I select Layout.

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The Layout options appear for you to view and select the one to fit the content in your presentation.

This gives me a drop down menu of slide formats, I can slide my cursor over these to preview the format, and when I am happy I click the layout I want.

I can repeat this with the third slide, using the same method. I can change the format at any time using the ‘right click, Layout method’.