Chapter 12. Customizing PowerPoint

12. Customizing PowerPoint

Chapter at a Glance

In this chapter, you will learn to:
Change default presentation options.
Make favorite PowerPoint commands easily accessible.
Make commands available with a specific presentation.

If you use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 only occasionally, you might be perfectly happy with the default environment options and behind-the-scenes settings. However, if you create presentations frequently, you might find yourself wishing that you could change aspects of the program to customize it for the way you work or the kinds of presentations you create.

In this chapter, you will explore the eight pages of the PowerPoint Options window, in which you can customize the way PowerPoint presents and handles various program elements. Then you will add buttons to the default PowerPoint 2007 Quick Access Toolbar, and add a button to a custom toolbar that is specific to a presentation.

See Also

Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Quick Reference entries on pages xxxix lxiii.

Important

Before you can use the practice files in this chapter, you need to install them from the book's companion CD to their default location. See "Using the Book's CD" on page xxv for more information.

Troubleshooting

Graphics and operating systemrelated instructions in this book reflect the Windows Vista user interface. If your computer is running Microsoft Windows XP and you experience trouble following the instructions as written, please refer to the "Information for Readers Running Windows XP" section at the beginning of this book.