To enter text into a slide:
Step 1:
Click inside placeholder.
Step 2:
Enter text.
Step 3:
When you are through entering text, click outside the placeholder
on some “empty space.”
To insert a new slide:
Option #1: Go to Insert->New Slide. A blank slide will appear in
the workspace.
Option #2: On the Slides pane (off to the left), position your cursor
to the point in the presentation where you would like the new slide to
appear (i.e. between slides, at the beginning of the presentation, or
at the end of the presentation). Go to Insert->New Slide. A blank slide
will appear in your selected location.
To apply a layout to your new slide:
Step 1:
When you insert a new slide, you’ll notice that
the “Slide
Layout” task pane appears off to the right.
Step 2
Scroll through available layouts by dragging the scroll bar to the
right.
Step 3:
Click on the layout you would like to apply to your slide.
To delete a slide:
Option #1: Go to Edit->Delete Slide. The current slide will disappear
from the workspace.
Option #2: On the Slides pane (off to the left), click on the slide
you would like to delete, and then hit the <Delete> key.