Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 Plain & Simple

Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

The idea behind the new interface in Microsoft Office 2007 is that the most commonly used tools are present on the ribbon rather than buried in dialog boxes, and the tools you use less often, though accessible, aren’t part of the main interface by default. Sometimes the only way to access a function you may have used in previous versions of PowerPoint is to place a command on the Quick Access toolbar. By default this toolbar contains only the Save, Undo, and Redo commands, but you can add as many commands as you wish.

Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar

1. Click the Office button.

2. Click the PowerPoint Options ...