If the Ribbon is new to you, here's what you need to know. You can read about the Transitions tab below, then skip directly to the next section of the story, "Find your way around Backstage," where you'll learn, among other things, how to customize the Ribbon - a feature that wasn't available in PowerPoint 2007. If you're comfortable with the Ribbon interface in PowerPoint 2007, you'll be happy to hear that it's largely the same in PowerPoint 2010, with two new additions: the File tab (also known as Backstage) and the Transitions tab. There's also a slider that lets you zoom in or out of your document. As in PowerPoint 2007, the View toolbar at the bottom right of the screen lets you choose among a variety of views, including Slide Sorter, Reading View and Slide Show. Once it's gone, drag the bottom border of the slide upward to make the Notes pane reappear. To make it disappear, drag it all the way down. You can drag its top border up or down to make this area larger or smaller. Underneath the slide you'll find a spot where you can type speaker notes. Here you'll see information about the current slide you're viewing, including what number it is in the presentation and what design theme it's using. You can drag the right border of the pane to make it larger or smaller. Click the Slides tab in it to see them as thumbnails click the Outline tab to see just the text of each slide. As in earlier versions of PowerPoint, this pane shows all the slides in your presentation. It's where you'll do all the work of creating your presentation. Here's the heart of PowerPoint - the slide itself. The PowerPoint 2010 Ribbon looks and works much the same as the PowerPoint 2007 Ribbon, with one nifty addition: In PowerPoint 2010, you can customize what's on the Ribbon. For example, when you click the Transitions tab, the Ribbon appears with buttons for items that you can use to create transitions between slides - Cut, Fade, Wipe, Split and more. Instead of old-style menus, submenus, sub-submenus and so on, the Ribbon groups small icons for common tasks together in tabs on a big ribbon. Love it or hate it, the Ribbon is the main way you'll work with PowerPoint. Introduced in PowerPoint 2007, this mini-toolbar offers buttons for the most commonly used commands, and you can customize it with whatever buttons you like. As you'll see later in this story, Backstage represents one of the biggest changes in PowerPoint 2010. Click it, and it leads you to Backstage, a new command center where you can handle an array of tasks, including opening, printing and sharing files customization version control and more. The File tab in PowerPoint 2010 replaces the Office orb button in PowerPoint 2007, which replaced the old File menu found in earlier versions of PowerPoint. With the exception of the File tab/Backstage, it's quite similar to PowerPoint 2007's interface. To help you find your way around PowerPoint 2010, here's a quick guided tour of the interface you can follow along using the screenshot below. We've noted which sections of the story former PowerPoint 2007 users can skip over. This cheat sheet shows newcomers how to get around it also explores features that are brand new in PowerPoint 2010.
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