Understand and Use the Ribbon

Understand the Ribbon in PowerPoint 2010

  • The Ribbon is designed as the child of menus and icons that replaces a long list of menus and assortment of toolbars and icons in the PowerPoint 2003

  • PowerPoint 2010 features are arranged in the tabs at the top of the Ribbon

  • The Home tab contains nearly every command used on a frequent basis based on the study of users’ habit by Microsoft

  • Some commands feature a pull-down menu to easily find additional options, information and settings showing in what is called Gallery

  • Many options on the Ribbon provides a LivePreview giving a preview of what changes will look like before committing in the slides



Use the Office Ribbon

The Ribbon stretches across the top of the work area in PowerPoint 2010. It displays groups of related commands in separate tabs.

  • Home tab - contains clipboard, slides, font, paragraph, drawing and editing groups.

  • Insert tab - contains tables, images, illustrations, links, text, symbols and media groups.

  • Design tab - contains page setup, themes and background groups

  • Transitions tab - contains preview, transition to this slide and timing groups

  • Animations tab - contains preview, animation, advanced animation and timing groups

  • Slide Show tab - contains start slide show, set up and monitors groups

  • Review tab - contains proofing, language, comments and compare groups

  • View tab - contains presentation views, master views, show, zoom, color/gray scale, windows and macros groups

  • File tab (Backstage View) - allows saving and opening presentations, starting a new presentation, reviewing information about the current presentation, sharing presentation files with others and much more


Minimize/Maximize the Ribbon

Do one of the following:

  • Double click on any tab of the Ribbon

  • Click on the Maximize-Minimize button found on the far right next to Help question mark