How to create a Countdown Timer in PowerPoint Open PowerPoint. If your Slide Layout is a Title slide or any other slide, change it to a Blank slide. Now, we are going to format the background.

Slides contain placeholders for text, tables, images and videos. We discuss how to change, insert or delete a slide in PowerPoint.

You can add a border to a PowerPoint slide by adding a rectangle shape and removing the fill color, which will give the appearance of a border.