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How To Use Home Tab In MS PowerPoint
MS PowerPoint Home Tab
Tools have been set at many places to edit text in MS PowerPoint. These places are called Tabs. You also know them by the name of Menu. In this lesson, we will tell you about the Home Tab of MS PowerPoint.
You can also activate its tools by pressing the Home Tab of MS PowerPoint by pressing Alt + H from the keyboard. Or you can also use it by mouse. By Default in MS PowerPoint, the buttons of this tab remain open.
The Home Tab of MS PowerPoint is divided into several groups. Each group has Buttons/Commands related to a specific task. You can use these buttons by pressing them with the mouse. Below we will tell you how many groups are there in the Home Tab? And what is the function of the tools available in each group?
Home Tab Groups Names and Their Functions
There are total 6 groups in the Home Tab of MS PowerPoint. You can see them in the screen shot shown above. The names of these groups are Clipboard, Slides, Font, Paragraph, Drawing and Editing respectively. Now you have become familiar with the Groups of Home Tab. Let us now know the work of each group.
Clipboard In PowerPoint
Like other programs in Microsoft Office. PowerPoint’s Clipboard is also a temporary storage. In which the data copied or cut by you is saved. Unless you paste this data elsewhere. Till then it remains in the Data Clipboard. When your system is turned off, Save Data in Clipboard also automatically becomes Empty. So as long as your system is running. Till then only you can use Save Data in Clipboard.
Slides In PowerPoint
The work of Slides Group is done to make changes in the Current Presentation. This group mainly contains buttons like New Slide, Layout, Reset, and Delete. To add a new slide to the current presentation through the New Slide button. Through this you can add a new slide to your presentation. The layout of any one or more slides in the presentation is changed through the Layout Command. The slide you will select. The layout of the same slide will change. Formatting, Slide Position, Side etc. done in a slide through the Reset Command is reset to mean Default. That is, as your slide was before. It becomes exactly like that. The last command Delete is used to delete a slide from the presentation.The slide you want to delete. Select it first. And then delete that slide from the presentation.
Font In PowerPoint
Formatting of text is done in the slides available in PowerPoint Presentation through the commands available in Font Group. In this you are given commands to change Font Family, Font Size, Font Style etc. Through these commands, you can format any MS PowerPoint document according to you. In whichever slide you want to use Font, Font Size of your choice. You can set it from here.
Paragraph In PowerPoint
In this group there are commands related to setting the Slides Paragraph. Through these, you can set Paragraph Alignment (Left, Right, Center, Justify), Line Spacing, Height between Columns. If you want to put a list in PowerPoint Slides, then you can use Bullet List and Number List from here. Apart from these commands, Text Orientation can be changed through Text Direction in Paragraph Group. Alignment of the text written in the Text Box is set by Align Text. With the Convert to SmartArt command, the text written in PowerPoint Slides can be converted into SmartArt.
Drawing In PowerPoint
The work of Drawing Group is used to set up Insert Pictures, Objects, Shapes etc. in Slides. You can color in Shapes. Effects can be added to them. Apart from this, you can also insert Shapes in Slides from here.
Editing In PowerPoint
The Editing Group available in the Home Tab is very useful. There are 3 main commands in this group. Through Find Command, a particular word/sentence available in MS PowerPoint Document is searched. With Replace Command, you can write any other word in place of any word available in PowerPoint Slides. You have to change the word only once, and in place of that word another word is written. And the text available in Presentation through Select Command can be selected simultaneously.
What have you learned ?
In this lesson, we have told you in detail about the Home Tab of MS PowerPoint. You have also learned about the work of each group available in the Home Tab. We hope that you will be able to use Home Tab easily after reading this lesson. And this Lesson will prove useful for you.
