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Slide Layouts in PowerPoint 2007

By Wendy Russell, About.com

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PowerPoint 2007 Opening Screen

PowerPoint 2007 opening screen

PowerPoint 2007 opening screen

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Related - Slide Layouts in PowerPoint (earlier versions)

PowerPoint 2007 Opening Screen

When you first open PowerPoint 2007, your screen should resemble the diagram above.

Areas of the PowerPoint 2007 Screen

Section 1. Each page of the working area of the presentation is called a slide. New presentations open with a Title slide in Normal view ready for editing.

Section 2. This area toggles between Slides view and Outline view. Slides view shows a tiny picture of all the slides in your presentation. Outline view shows the hierarchy of the text in your slides.

Section 3. This part of the new user interface (UI) is known as the Ribbon. The different Ribbons take the place of the toolbars and menus of previous versions in PowerPoint. The Ribbons offer access to all the different features in PowerPoint 2007.

Here is a close-up view of the Home Ribbon

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