The Home Tab
The first tab in the Ribbon is the Home tab. This contains the basic formatting tools.
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Clipboard If you recall the section on Windows, Cut, Copy and Paste are functions of the Clipboard. Cut, Copy, and Paste should be easy to understand. Office 2007, however, adds extra power to the clipboard; by clicking on the dialog box button, you can see the last 24 things that you copied or cut, and you can paste any one of them. Additionally, you can use the Format Painter. This is to copy the special formatting of text or other objects. For example, if some text is colored red with a specific font and style, you can copy the exact same color and styles to other text. Here's how:
That's all. The same effect can be performed in Word or Excel. |
Slides This section of the Home tab on the Ribbon deals with Slide basics.
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Font This area allows you to change the style of text which has been selected. Top row:
Bottom row:
If you click on the Dialog Box, you will get: Here, you can change more items. We will discuss many of these when we study Microsoft Word. |
Paragraph This area allows you to change the paragraph-level settings: Top row:
Bottom row:
Special Buttons (on the right):
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Drawing This area allows you to draw shapes, arrange them, and style them: On the left there are Autoshapes, starting with Recently Used Shapes. This can include a Text Box, which is counted as a Basic Shape. Notice that there are three buttons on the right side of the Autoshapes box. The top two will scroll up and down the list of different shape types. The bottom button will show the whole list of shapes. Next, you can arrange the Shapes: Choose Quick Styles ("presets") for decorating the shapes: And then, finally, on the far right, you can use one of the three buttons for:
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Editing Finally, there is a small area on the right side of the Home tab which allows you to do three actions which are probably not so useful in PowerPoint: You can explore this area on your own, if you wish. |