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Changing a Slide's Formatting. As you create new slides, you will notice that PowerPoint sort of gives you a basic format. You can add a title and, typically, it's going to give you some bullet point options here that you can add. But if you are creating a presentation and you simply don't like the layout PowerPoint is giving you, what can you do? Well, quite simply, you can change those content layouts to a number of different options that PowerPoint gives you. If you will click on a slide, and you will see the basic layout here, and then go to slide layout, this will probably be available by default. If it's not, just click the drop-down menu, click slide layout, you see some basic text layouts and then some content layouts, then you will see text and content layouts, and then finally some other layouts. Now all this means is that PowerPoint gives you a number of different ways to format text on your slides quickly and easily. For example, if I click this option, I am going to have my basic title page; this is where we just came from, the title and bullet points, I can choose this one that will allow me to add text in two different columns. The second option you have is some content layouts; you even have a blank screen option. I am going to take off this content, as we don't want to use it. If you go to blank option, you see we have nothing. At this point then, you can use different formatting on your own, which you'll learn how to do later on in this tutorial. Then you have some content options. Now what this does is basically sets up your slides so that you can easily add different kinds of content such as pictures, diagrams, charts, clip art, and even media, and we will talk about those later. And then if you look, you will see some different organizations. For example, this one allows you to add a title and then like a picture and a movie here or whatever you might want. You can see on this one you have four quadrants to add different kinds of media content. If you move on down, then you have some options that you can choose to have text and content, and so you have a number of different kinds of formatting that you can choose from. Other layouts basically give you different kinds of same thing: you can add a chart to this one, this one allows you to add clip art, this one allows you to automatically create a table directly within the slide. Now the question may come up as to what should you do if you look through the content layouts and there really isn't a layout that you want to use? Well the answer is simple enough: you can create your own layout. You can choose a blank screen and then begin creating your own text boxes, inserting your own art, creating your own titles, depending on how you want the slide to actually look. Now that sounds complicated, it really isn't, but it will certainly require more steps than simply choosing a slide layout. After all, the purpose of a layout is to give you what you need, set it up so that all you really have to do is add the content. But you can configure your own slides and we will look at how to do that in later tutorials. But the main point to remember is always use slide layouts when you possibly can. PowerPoint has already done the work for you, you simply add the content and that makes your life easier, makes your presentations faster to put together.