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beamer package

A popular option for creating presentations with LaTeX is the beamer package, which is widely supported through additional themes and add-on packages.

To get started with beamer you can try one of these:

powerdot package

Another way to make presentations is the powerdot package which uses the more traditional output workflow of DVI to PostScript/PDF—for an example, see this Overleaf article on powerdot. To compile powerdot projects the Overleaf compiler must be set to LaTeX, as shown in the following graphic:

How to set the Overleaf compiler to LaTeX

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