The most-used technique to create a PowerPoint presentation is to launch PowerPoint and start creating new slides. Alternatively, you can opt for these three common ways in which you can create slides. The best of these three ways is to start creating presentation slides not from within PowerPoint but by creating an outline in another program. Many purists say that you should not even launch PowerPoint until you have an outline in place.
Learn how to create outlines for presentations in Microsoft Word 2003 for Windows.
