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PowerPoint2007: Adding, rearranging, and deleting slides

The single slide that is provided automatically in your presentation has two placeholders, one formatted for a title and the other formatted for a subtitle. The arrangement of placeholders on a slide is called a layout. Office PowerPoint 2007 also provides other types of placeholders, such as those for pictures and SmartArt graphics.

When you add a slide to your presentation, you can do the following to choose a layout for the new slide at the same time:

1. On the Slides tab, click just below the single slide that already appears there.
2. On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the arrow next to New Slide.

   

   A gallery appears, showing thumbnails of the various slide layouts that are available.

   

    The name identifies the content that each layout is designed for.
    Placeholders that display colored icons can contain text, but you can also click the icons to automatically insert objects, including SmartArt graphics and clip art 
3. Click the layout that you want for your new slide.

   The new slide now appears both on the Slides tab, where it is highlighted as the current slide, and in the Slide pane. Repeat this procedure for each new slide that you want to add.

   Tip: If you want your new slide to have the same layout that the preceding slide has, you can just click New Slide instead of clicking the arrow next to it.