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Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Tutorials

Getting Familiar with PowerPoint / Working with Toolbars

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Working with Toolbars. A toolbar is actually a location on PowerPoint that contains different buttons that you can use and they have a number of different functions. When you first use PowerPoint, the odds are good that you will see a standard toolbar, which is this one here, and you should also see a formatting toolbar. If you look on the bottom, you will see a draw toolbar and these options contain different button icons that you can use, depending on what you are working on at the moment. Now the important thing to remember is the options that you see here are generally available in your menus as well. The idea, however, is to give you different toolbar options so that it makes your work little bit faster and little bit easier. Understand that when you use a program, often the program will give you two or three different ways to accomplish the same task. For example, I could click file, then go to new to start a new presentation or, more easily, I can just click new on the toolbar, and choose different slides or also a different presentation. Let's say that I wanted to do some formatting on some text using bold, italic, underline, and so forth. I can select the text or type new text and once I have the title done, I can simply select it and then I could use the button options on the toolbar, to actually apply different formatting. I can also click format, click font, and then use the font dialog box to apply these different effects and change the font styles and the font sizes just like I can do here. As you can see it's just the same thing, it's just that the toolbar makes it a little bit easier and a little bit faster. The important thing to remember about toolbars is that they are here to make your life easier, so it's a good idea to get familiar with the different buttons that you see, but also keep in mind that you can move toolbars around as you want them to. If you look at the end of each toolbar, you will notice a little series of dashes and when you put your mouse over them, your cursor will change and, once again, all you have to do is then click that, and drag to move the toolbars around. What I just did here is move the formatting toolbar along with the standard toolbar so they are all in one place. As you can see from this arrow, they are running off the screen so I can click that and see the rest of my options, and that's just something if I want to do. I can also grab the toolbar, drag it around, put it on the interface, and work with it. I can even drag it over to the side of the screen and use it that way. The option is totally up to you, just keep in mind that you can always move them using these little dashes that you see here In fact, the menu bar that you see running across the top is actually a toolbar itself, as you can see from the little dashes. You can also move the menu bar around as you please. There is no right or wrong way to use toolbars and no right or wrong way to place them. The important thing is put them in a spot that works for you, where you can easily access them, and where it makes sense and makes your life easier when you are working with PowerPoint.

Tutorial Information

Course: Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Author: Curtis Simmons
SKU: 33455
ISBN: 1932072543
Release Date: 2003-09-30
Duration: 7 hrs / 96 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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