Starting Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 & its Environment p.229

• When you start PowerPoint, a new blank presentation, temporarily named Presenatation1
• Quick Access Toolbar - Customizable toolbar that provides access to the most common PowerPoint commands
• Title Bar - This contains the filename of the presentation and the name of the software you are working on.
• Control Buttons - contains Buttons like maximize toggled with restore, minimize, and close the open file
• File tab - This shows the menus like, save, Saveas, open, close, info, recent, new, print, save&send, help,options, Exit.
• Ribbon - contains tabbed groups of buttons organized around completing a specific type of task. Tabs, groups, & commands.
• Menu tabs - Represents the activities you perform and contains related groups
• Groups - These are organized commands that are related to each other.
• Commands - these are icons or buttons that appear within each group
• dialog box launcher - When clicked, it launches dialog box or take task pane that contains additional options
• slide tab & outline tab - Displays slide miniatures or thumbnails or outline text of the current presentation
• slide/outline pane - where we can see the slide thumbnail or outline text of the current presentation
• placeholders - this is where you type the text and place graphics in your presentation
• Rulers - These are vertical & horizontal guides. These are used to determine where to place an object.
• Slides - these are located at the center of the window
• scroll bar - use to navigate the presentation are created on the slides
• status bar - A customizable bar below the presentation area that is used to display various types of information
• notes pane - this is used to create notes for the presenter which serves as a guide when delivering the presentation
• View shortcuts - This contains normal view, slide sorter view, reading view, and slide show
• Theme - color coordinated set of colors, fonts, and special effects that you can apply all at one time to slides for your presentation.
• Powerpoint help window - Contains a toolbar with buttons you can click to move back & forth between recently viewed help topics, print a topic, and access other features plus a search text box
• screentip - small explanatory box that appears when you point to an element in a powerpoint window, such as a button.
• screentip box - provides the name of the element, and, in this case of a ribbon button.