let's take a look at our Microsoft
Office PowerPoint window when you open
powerpoints you have a new blank
presentation the first view that you
will see is the normal view now there
are several ways to view your
presentation but the three you will use
the most or located here at the bottom
of the window there is a slide sorter
view which makes it easy to rearrange
slides and the slideshow view that
starts your presentation to the right is
the zoom tool you can zoom in and out by
left-clicking the slider and dragging it
back and forth you can also use the
scroll bar above it to scroll left and
right in the window at the top of the
window you have the ribbon which is the
new menu system that is arranged into
tabs on each tab you'll find commands
organized in groups above the ribbon
you'll see the quick access toolbar one
of the simplest things you can do to
make accomplishing basic tasks faster is
to customize the quick access toolbar
the quick access toolbar resides right
next to the Microsoft Office button and
all the office 2007 applications and
allows you to reach commonly used
commands quickly by default the save
undo and redo commands appear on the
toolbar to view the commands you can add
simply click the down arrow next to the
toolbar and the menu appears I'm going
to add the spelling command and now we
can see that it appears on the toolbar
as you can see a checkmark appeared
beside spelling this means it is
selected and appears on its own bar to
remove a commands from the toolbar just
left-click any commands with the
checkmark
and it will no longer appear on the
toolbar see how easy it is to add and
remove commands you can add more
commands besides the ones that appear on
the drop-down list just select more
commands and from the dialog box that
appears select the command you wish to
add click the Add button and then click
OK this gives you the ability to really
customize PowerPoint while working with
powerpoints you may find that there are
times that you want to work on your
presentation without the ribbon
Microsoft gives you the ability to
minimize and maximize the ribbon to
minimize the ribbon click the drop down
arrow next to the quick access toolbar
select minimize ribbon from the list and
the ribbon disappears click the arrow
again and you can see that the checkmark
appears next to minimize the ribbon
which indicates this feature is toggled
on to maximize the ribbon just select
minimize the ribbon to toggle the
feature off and the ribbon will appear
in addition to the quick access toolbar
and the ribbon the Microsoft Office
button appears at the top of your window
when you left click the button you
access a menu from this menu you can
create a new presentation open existing
presentations save them in a variety of
ways and print you can also add security
features
sinn publish and close the file you can
also click the PowerPoint options button
to open a dialog box where you can make
some changes to the default settings in
the popular section show mini toolbar is
selected this shows the information that
appears when you hover over a commands
like this if you're new to PowerPoint
this information is helpful if you're a
power user this may be more of an
annoyance you can turn this feature off
here if you like I'm actually going to
leave this on there are a lot of things
you can change here for example I want
to know if I'm using my words correctly
in my presentation I can go to the
proofing command and then look down
where it says when correcting spelling
and power point I'm going to put a check
beside use contextual spelling by doing
this PowerPoint will let me know if I'm
using a word incorrectly oh and there's
one more thing I want to show you if you
go back to the popular section and look
down for color scheme you can change the
color scheme from the normal blue to
silver or black I think I'll try black
yeah that looks really good now I'm
ready to start my presentation