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Ribbon

Definition: The Ribbon is the strip of buttons across the top of the main window. Here on the Ribbon you will find access to anything the program has to offer. You no longer have to hunt endlessly through many menus and sub menus to find the command you want. Commands are located in logical places now, unlike in earlier versions of all things Microsoft.

Here is an example - If you want to do something about the design of your presentation, you will access the Design tab on the ribbon. Following that, there are sections across the ribbon pertaining to things to do with design -- such as the background. If you want to change the background, click on the background text entry and anything you want to do with the background will appear in a contextual menu.

Create a new file

1        Click the Microsoft Office Button and then click New.

2        Under Templates, you see options you can use to create:

A blank document, workbook, or presentation.

A document, workbook, or presentation from a template.

A new document, workbook, or presentation from an existing file.

Copying and pasting slides

1        When you copy one or more slides from a presentation to a location within the same presentation or to another presentation, you can specify the theme that you want the new slides to adopt.

2        By default, when a slide is pasted into a new location in a presentation, it inherits the theme of the slide that precedes it. However, if you copied the slide from another presentation that uses a different theme, you can retain that theme when you paste the slide into a different presentation. To change the formatting so that a pasted slide does not inherit the theme from the slide that precedes it, use the Paste Options button which appears near the pasted slide.

Copy and paste your slides

1        In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click the Slides tab.

2        Select the slide that you want to copy by doing one of the following:

To select a single slide, click it.

To select multiple sequential slides, click the first slide, press Shift, and then click the last slide that you want to select.

To select multiple nonsequential slides, press CTRL, and then click each slide that you want to select.

3        Right-click one of the selected slides, and then click Copy.

4        In the destination presentation, on the Slides tab, right-click the slide that you want your copied slides to follow, and then click Paste.

To retain the original design of the copied slides, click the Paste Options button which appears near the pasted slides on the Outline or Slides tab in Normal view, or in the Slides pane, and then click Keep Source Formatting.

Where is the Paste Options button?

When you paste a slide into a new location in a presentation, the Paste Options button typically appears near the pasted slide on the Outline or Slides tab in Normal view, or in the Slides pane. The Paste Options button enables you to control how your content appears after you paste it — also known as paste recovery.

The following are reasons why you may not see the Paste Options button after you paste a slide:

You pasted by using Paste Special from the Clipboard section of the Home tab. You must use the Cut or Copy and Paste commands, or you can copy and paste by using the Office Clipboard to see the paste options.

You pasted a group of objects from another program, such as Microsoft Office Word.

There is no style discrepancy between the source and destination for the slide that you are pasting.

Duplicate slides within a presentation

          In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click the Slides tab.

2        Select one or more slides that you want to duplicate.

3        On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click New Slide.

4        In the layout gallery, click Duplicate Selected Slides.

Note

The duplicated slides are inserted directly below the lowermost slide that you selected.

  Change all slides in a presentation to portrait page orientation

By default, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 slide layouts are presented in landscape page orientation, or you can change your slide layouts to portrait page orientation.

On the Quick Access Toolbar, click Page Setup .

In the Page Setup dialog box, under Slides, click Portrait, and then click OK.