Question

The initial screen and ribbon in PowerPoint 2007/2010

Answer 1

Initial PowerPoint screen

When Microsoft PowerPoint starts, an initial screen of the program is presented where you can see the different elements that form it as shown in the following image:

You can see a bar of quick access elements and a ribbon of options:

Quick access elements

In the tape you can see all the tools and utilities that are necessary to work in PowerPoint. The program organizes the tabs that in turn include categories.

In the central part is where the creations that are made appear:

The outline area will allow to see the titles of the slides that are created including their number. This area is located in the middle left part of the screen.

The title bar will contain the name of the document that is being displayed and also the name of the program.

The zoom and view bars are in the lower right part of the screen:
With the zoom you can zoom in or out the viewpoint of the slide.
With the view buttons you can have a normal view, a slide classifier view and a slide show view. As you can see in the following image:

In the notes area support annotations can be included when the presentation of the slides is being made. Although they will not be visible at the time of presenting them, they can be indicated to appear in the case you wish to print them.
The area is in the lower middle part of the screen.

The ribbon

It can be said that it is the most important bar in PowerPoint since it presents all the options that will allow creating the presentations.

They appear in view as Home, Insert, Drawing, Animations, Slide Show, Review, View, Add-ons and Format.
These would be called chips, which are divided into groups. For example, the Insert tab contains among other groups; table, image, clip art, photo album, etc.

To be placed on a different tab, just click on the name of it.
In addition, the tool groups of the cards have a button located at the bottom that is informing you that there are more related options.

The ribbon will show certain tabs when they are useful. For example, the drawing card will be activated when the user is in the edition of the slide.

If you press the ALT key you will enter keyboard access mode, where small boxes will appear indicating the keys or set of keys that must be pressed to access from the keyboard, ie without using the mouse.

To exit the keyboard access mode, press the ALT key again.

Show / Hide the ribbon
If you double click on any of the tabs, the bar will be hidden, to have more workspace. The options will be shown again when you click again on any tab.

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