- [Jess] When you open PowerPoint with no file,
it's going to bring you to this screen.
On the left hand side will be any files
that you've accessed recently so that you can
quickly open them.
Let's make a brand new presentation from scratch.
I'll be using our fictional technology company, Red 30.
Jenny Torres will be making this presentation,
she's the business-to-business sales manager,
and she's going to pitch their upcoming sales strategy.
To get started, I'm gonna double click
on blank presentation, this is going to create
a brand new presentation right from scratch.
The first thing I like to do is immediately save it,
so I'll click file on the top left hand side of the screen,
I'll choose save as on the left,
and the first thing I need to choose
is where I wanna save this.
If I was connected to a OneDrive account,
maybe through SharePoint, or using a free Microsoft account,
I could save it to their cloud storage service
and be able to access it anywhere.
I can click add a place if there's a particular
SharePoint folder that I wanna use
if I'm connected to exchange,
or I can click browse and save it somewhere
on my desktop.
I'll scroll up and I'll save it to the desktop,
I'll click inside file name, and give it a title.
I'll call this one sales strategy.
I'll click the save button, and now it's saved.
Whenever I wanna access it now,
there's a few ways I can get to this presentation.
I can click file again on the left hand side,
open, and if I'm working on it,
it will show up in this recent list.
I can just double click on it right from here.
In fact, I can take it a step further
and click this pin icon.
It's going to pin it to the list
so that even if I continue working on other files,
this one will always show up.
It's especially useful if I'm going to put it away
and not work on it for a while.
But for now, I'll click the arrow on the top
left hand side of the screen,
and we're ready to start working on our presentation.