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Using AutoContent. Let's face the facts, preparing a speech or a presentation isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world you might want to do, and sometimes you don't have a lot of time to do it; this is where a feature called AutoContent comes into play with PowerPoint. Using AutoContent, PowerPoint can actually help you develop your speech; it will basically provide a shell of an outline for you, and you can go through and use the outline, filling in your own personal information, and edit it as you desire. But it gives you a starting point, it can help you get organized, and the good news is it's really easy to do. Open PowerPoint and, if you haven't done so already, click file and go to new, and this will open the new presentation task pane, and if you look under new, you will see the "From AutoContent Wizard" option. Click the link and what you will see is a wizard appear that will provide you with AutoContent, and we will take a look at this wizard. First of all, you have a quick introduction; it will start you out, let you select your presentation type, the style, look at some options, and then you can finish. So go ahead and click next, and you will come to a page where you can choose the kind of presentation that you are going to give. Now if you click the "All" button, you can see a complete list of every kind of presentation AutoContent can help you with. As you can see, you can choose everything from introducing and thanking a speaker, to a company handbook presentation, a brain storming session. As you can see, there are a lot of options. When you click "All," you are seeing everything that PowerPoint provides you with. You can also, however, drill these down a bit by clicking on different categories. For example, under "General" you have some basic general kinds of presentations. If you go down to "Carnegie Coach," you will see some things like selling your ideas, motivating a team, and so forth. So click through these different options, and find the one that you want, and I will just stick with selling your ideas. Click next, and then it will ask you what type of output that you are going to use. In other words, you will choose between an on-screen presentation, a web presentation, a black-and-white overheads, color overheads, or 35mm slides. This selection will help PowerPoint know what you want to do and how to format and prepare the actual presentation, and we will just stick with on-screen presentation for this option. Click next, we will give it a title. If you want to add a footer to each slide, you can type that here, and you can also include information on the date that it was last updated and the slide number, and these will appear on your slides, if you want to include those. If not, just clear the check boxes; it's totally up to you. If you don't want to include a footer, just leave that blank. Click next, and then it tells you that AutoContent has everything that it needs. Click finish. So that is what I am going to do now and all of a sudden your presentation comes to life. As you can see, PowerPoint has actually chosen a template for you and, if you look over on the outline page, you can see the number of slides that you have, or you can click to slide sorter and to see the options here, but if we go back, look at what you have on some of these options. You have an opening, "Give Evidence." Now you can click on these and change these as you want. As you see, the bullet points are basically telling you information that you can put here. For example, this is saying "Related an incident that clearly illustrates your main point." So I would take that out and then type my bullet point as I might want it. If I don't want to use their suggestion, of course, I can simply change it to whatever I want. But as you click through the different slides it has created, you see it's giving you different ideas to put in your presentation. This is a basic shell of an outline for a good presentation; PowerPoint is trying to give you suggestions on what to put in these basic places that it has given you. You can change these in any way that you want, you can delete a slide-- just right-click it and click cut, type over anything that you don't want to do, rearrange slides by just dragging them around, re-title them, whatever you want to do. The main point here is that AutoContent is a quick way to help you get an outline and it's a quick way to let PowerPoint help you find out, what content you might actually want to include in your presentation and help you organize the content in an effective and meaningful way.