Create a frame for your presentation with a beginning and ending slide.

• Open PowerPoint. Choose the Title Slide template. This will be the first slide in your presentation.
• Type the name of the event in the title box.
• Type your name, class, school, and date in the subtitle box.
• Click Insert>New Slide. Choose a slide layout that allows you to include a title and graphic or text and graphic. This will be the last slide of the presentation.
• Type "Thanks for Coming!" in the title or text box.
• Insert a clip art image into the graphic box - an image of a man bowing, for example.
• Click Format>Slide Design (or Apply Design Template) and choose a slide design -- "Curtain Call," for example.
• Save your work.

This is what the slides might look like:

Next: Creating prompts.