Add a slide. In the thumbnails on the left pane, select the slide you want your new slide to follow. In the Home tab, in the Slides section, select New Slide. In the Slides section, select Layout, and then select the layout you want from the menu.

In the left-side slide thumbnail pane, select the slide that your new slide will follow. On the Home tab, click New Slide. In the New Slide dialog box, select a layout for your new slide and it will be added automatically. Learn more about slide layouts.

Add and delete slides to organize your presentation how you want. Add slides. Select the slide you want your new one to follow. Select Home > New Slide. Select a layout. Select the text box and type. Delete slides. Select your slide. You can delete one or more slides at once: Single slide - Right-click and select Delete Slide.

Tip: To quickly create a new presentation in PowerPoint for the web, open your browser, type PowerPoint.new or ppt.new in the address bar, and then press Enter.

Training: By customizing slide masters, you can create precisely the presentation design and layouts you need. If you want a section of your presentation to look different from the rest of the slides, with its own layouts, create an additional slide master for that section.

Save a slide as a new PowerPoint presentation. In the slide thumbnail tab, on the left side of the PowerPoint window, select the slide you want to save. On the Edit menu, select Copy. Select File > New Presentation. A blank presentation opens. On the Home tab, select the down arrow next to the Paste button, and then select Keep Source ...

If you apply a slide layout to one or more slides in your presentation, and then go back and edit that layout by adding a placeholder, custom prompt text, or completing some other layout-altering action, you must reapply the layout to the slides so that the slides adhere to the updated layout.

If you're upgrading to PowerPoint 2024 from PowerPoint 2021, you'll still have all the features you're used to—and you'll notice a few new ones as well!

Use a personal template to create a new PowerPoint presentation Applies To PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 PowerPoint 2024 PowerPoint 2021 PowerPoint 2019 PowerPoint 2016 PowerPoint 2013 If you want to use a template you've saved for your next presentation, here's how.

Even if you have existing slides, we recommend that you apply a template to it by starting fresh with the template and then importing the existing slides into the new, fresh template.