Add Slides

On the main menu at the top of the screen, left-click on Insert, then click New Slide.

Alternatively, you can click on the New Slide icon on the button bar across the top of the screen, as shown in Figure 2 below. On my screen, this icon is on the right hand side of the screen; on yours, it may be placed elsewhere on the button bar.

A new slide dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 3.

Alternatively, you can use the key strokes Ctrl+M, as shown in the drop down menu in Figure 1 below.

Left-click on the "Title and Text" icon, making the small down arrow in the right hand side of the icon appear, as shown below in Figure 1.

Then, click the down arrow to view your add slide options, as shown in Figure 2. Click the "Insert New Slide" option to add a slide to your presentation.

See: A new slide will appear in the middle of the screen with a space to add a title at the top and text underneath. In the icon window on the left hand side of the screen, you'll also see a thumbnail of the new slide, with a colored border around it, as displayed in Figure 3. This colored border indicates that it is the "selected" slide; that is, it is the slide that is displayed in the middle of the screen, to which you can add text, pictures, and other objects.

If you click the slide above it, the slide display in the middle of the screen changes, as you just moved from slide #2 to slide #1. When you have lots of slides, this means of jumping from slide 3 to 25 becomes an easy process, when you click on thumbnail 25 (note that the thumbnails are conveniently numbered for you...).