POWERPOINT HOME TAB

The Home Tab is used to perform many of the common tasks such as changing fonts, cutting
and pasting text and images into presentations, changing paragraph formats, drawing objects,
and editing text. The groups and buttons for this ribbon are described in the table below.

Groups/Buttons Description
Clipboard Group
Paste This button is used to insert items into a document that have been
stored on the clipboard.
Cut To remove text or other items from a document and store it on the
clipboard, click this button.
Copy Click this button to make a copy of selected text or other items in a
presentation and store it on the clipboard.
Format Painter To make a copy of selected text and then apply the formatting to
other text in a slide, click this button. A single click will apply the
formatting to other selected text one time. To apply the formatting
to other selected text several times, double-click the format painter
button. When all the formatting has been applied, click the button
again to deactivate the format painter.
Clipboard Task Pane This button is located in the lower right corner of the Clipboard
Launcher group. It is used to open the Clipboard Task Pane. This is the task
pane that will display when items that are added to the clipboard
are displayed. This allows more than one item to be added to the
clipboard before the items are pasted into the document.
Slides Group
New Slide Click this button to insert a new slide into the presentation. The
slide will be inserted after the current slide with the same format
as the current slide. Clicking the arrow will display a gallery of
different slide layouts. Click any of the slide layouts to insert a
new slide into the presentation.
Layout When this button is clicked, a gallery of different slide layouts will
appear. Click one of the layouts to apply it to the current slide; the
slide where the insertion point is located.
Reset This button is used to reset the slide position, size, and formatting
to its default value.

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Groups/Buttons Description
Section Use this button to organize the slides in a presentation into
sections.
Font Group
Font Type To select the type of font for a whole document or for selected text
within the document, click this button.
Font Size This button is used to change the size of the font for the whole
document or for selected text within the document.
Increase Font Size Click this button to increase the size of the font for selected text.
Each time the button is clicked, the font size will increase by one or
two point sizes.
Decrease Font Size To decrease the size of selected text, click this button. The size of
the font will decrease by one or two point sizes each time the
button is clicked.
Clear All Formatting To clear all the formatting that has been applied to selected text,
click this button.
Bold Click this button to bold selected text in a document. This is a
toggle button. When the button is clicked the second time the bold
formatting will be removed.
Italics This button is used to italicize selected text in a document. This is a
toggle button. When the button is clicked the second time the
italics will be removed from the selected text.
Underline To underline selected text in a document, click this button. This is
a toggle button. When the button is clicked the second time the
underline formatting will be removed.
Text Shadow Use this button to apply a shadow behind the selected text to help
it stand out on the slide. Click the button a second time to remove
the shadow from the selected text.
Strikethrough This button is used to draw a line through selected text in a
document. To remove the strikethrough, click the button a second
time.
Character Spacing Click this button to change the spacing between characters. A list
of spacing options will appear.
Change Case To change the selected text to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or other
common capitalizations, click this button. A list of possible
capitalizations will appear.
Font Color This button is used to change the color of the font for the selected
text. When the button is clicked, a gallery of theme and standard
colors will appear.
Font Dialog Box This button is located in the lower right corner of the Font group.
Launcher It is used to launch the Font dialog box where additional changes
can be made to the Font.
Paragraph Group
Bullets To create a bulleted list within a slide, click this button. Click the
list arrow to display a gallery of bullet styles.
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Groups/Buttons Description
Numbering This button is used to create a numbered list within a slide. When
the list arrow is clicked, a gallery of number styles will display.
Decrease List Level When an indent has been applied to text in a slide, this button is
used to decrease the indent. Click the button to decrease each level
of the indent.
Increase List Level Click this button to increase the indent for a paragraph, numbered
list, bulleted list, or a multilevel list. Each time the button is
clicked, the indent will increase one level.
Line Spacing This button is used to specify the amount of space between lines of
text. When the button is clicked, a list of possible line spacing
options will appear.
Align Left Click this button to align all the text in a document or paragraph at
the left margin. The text at the left margin will be even. The text in
the right margin will be uneven. This is the default alignment for
all presentations created in PowerPoint.
Center To center selected text or a paragraph in a document, click this
button.
Align Right This button is used to align text in a slide at the right margin. The
text at the right margin will be even. The text on the left side will
be uneven.
Justify When this button is clicked, the text in a slide will be aligned
evenly at both the left and right margin. Additional spacing will be
inserted between words as necessary.
Add/Remove Column Click this button to split the text in the slide to two or more
columns.
Text Direction To change the orientation of text to vertical or stacked, click this
button. It is also possible to rotate the text using this button.
Align Text This button is used to specify how text is aligned vertically in the
text box. The default options are top, bottom, and middle.
Insert Smart Art When this button is clicked, the selected bullet items are converted
Graphic to a Smart Art graphic. There are several different styles to choose
from.
Paragraph Dialog Box This button is located in the lower right corner of the Paragraph
Launcher Group. It is used to open the Paragraph Dialog Box where
additional Paragraph formatting options are available.
Drawing Group
Shapes Gallery Click the arrow next to this button and then select an item in the
gallery to insert different shapes such as rectangles, triangles, and
circles into a slide. When the button is clicked, a gallery of
different shapes will appear.
Arrange To arrange objects on the slide by changing the order, position,
and rotation click this button. A list of different options will
appear when the button is clicked.

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Groups/Buttons Description
Quick Styles Use this button to apply a visual style to the shape or text. A
gallery of different styles will appear when the button is clicked.
Shape Fill This button is used to change the fill color for the selected shape. A
gallery of different colors and formatting options will appear
when the button is clicked.
Shape Outline When this button is clicked, a gallery of different outline colors
and options that can be applied to the selected shape will appear.
Shape Effects To apply shadows or other effects to a shape, click this button. A
list of different categories of effects will appear. Move the mouse
pointer over any of the effects to see a gallery of effects for each
category.
Format Shape Task This button appears in the lower right corner of the Drawing
Pane Launcher group. It is used to launch the Format Shape Dialog Box.
Editing Group
Find To locate a particular word or phrase within a presentation, click
this button. The Find dialog box will display. Within this box, the
word or phrase that is to be found can be specified.
Replace This feature is used to locate text within a presentation and replace
it with other text. When the button is clicked, the Replace dialog
box will display. This is where the word(s) to be found and
replaced are specified.
Select Click this button to select text or objects within a presentation. The
options are to select all the objects in the active slide, select objects
within the presentation, or to open the Selection Task Pane.