When you add a new presentation to a project, the presentation view opens empty and the Contents pane does not contain any pages. A presentation must contain at least one page to be displayed in full-screen mode or shared to a file on disk. You can insert new pages using any of the four available page types, or create pages based on existing pages. This means that you can copy an existing page, or, for map pages only, you can work in an activated map page to create map pages from an updated extent.
The type of page determines the background for the page and fills the space of the page. For example, a map or scene selected for a map page is inserted into the presentation as the entire page. If needed, the background position can be customized to a different percentage of the page using the page property settings. Presentation overlay elements such as text, images, and shapes are added to a page after the page is created.
To add pages to a presentation, complete the following steps:
- In the Contents pane, click
the Insert Page button.
The Insert New Page pop-up dialog box appears.
- On the Insert New Page dialog box, click one of the page types listed at the top: Map, Blank, Image, or Video.
Map
Browse the gallery to choose the map or scene to create the map page. Click the filter drop-down menu in the upper corner to only show views for a particular map. Optionally, turn on the Show open views only toggle button to reduce the list if the project contains maps that are not open views.
Hover over any thumbnail in the gallery to view source information, for example, to determine whether the view is a stored bookmark or at a particular scale.
Blank
Choose from three blank page templates: a blank page with no placeholder text, a blank page with a title element, or a blank page with title and paragraph body text elements.
Image
Click Browse to open the Insert Picture dialog box to set the image source file. Image pages support BMP, EMF, GIF, JPG, PNG, and TIFF file formats.
Video
Click Browse to open the Insert Video dialog box to set the video source file. Video pages support the AVI, MP4, MPEG, and GIF file formats.
- Click Insert on the Insert New Page dialog box to create the new page and close the dialog box.
The page is displayed in the presentation view and a thumbnail of the page is added in the Contents pane. The page area is defined by the black outline in the presentation view. Any elements added to the page in the presentation view and placed outside the page border are not displayed in full-screen mode.
- To add more pages to the presentation, do any of the following:
- Click the Insert Page button again to access the page types.
- On the Insert tab, in the Page group, click the button for the specific page type to insert New Map Page
, New Blank Page 
, New Image Page 
, or New Video Page 
. - Right-click an existing page in the Contents pane and click Duplicate to add a copy below the page. Drag the page to change the order if necessary.
- Copy a page to paste below any selected page. If no page is selected, it is pasted at the bottom of the list.
- Create a map page from an activated map page.
The Contents pane for a presentation can help you view and manage the pages, elements and map layers as a list. You will primarily use the contents pane to keep track of the pages you have added and which order you want to present them. You can also control which pages are visible, if you want to lock any page or element to prevent unwanted edits, reorganize or remove items, as well as access context menu commands.