Datasheet

blank, but the top part of the screen is chock-full of little icons and buttons

and doohickies. What is all that stuff?

Figure 1-1 shows the basic PowerPoint screen in all its cluttered glory. The

following list points out the more important parts of the PowerPoint screen:

 The Ribbon: Across the top of the screen, just below the Microsoft

PowerPoint title, is PowerPoint’s main user-interface gadget, called the

Ribbon. If you’ve worked with previous versions of PowerPoint, you

were probably expecting to see a menu followed by one or more tool-

bars in this general vicinity. After meticulous research, Microsoft gurus

decided that menus and toolbars are hard to use. So they replaced the

menus and toolbars with the Ribbon, which combines the functions of

both. The Ribbon takes some getting used to, but after you figure it out,

Office button (a.k.a. the File menu)

Quick Access toolbar

Slides and Outline tabs The Ribbon

Status barCurrent slide

Figure 1-1:

PowerPoint’s

cluttered

screen.

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