Home Tab in Microsoft PowerPoint

Home Tab in Microsoft PowerPoint is the default tab for editing, drawing and formatting the presentations. Home Tab-ribbon is divided into multiple sections with the name Clipboard, Slides, Font, Paragraph, Drawing and Editing. The detailed explanation about Home Tab in Microsoft PowerPoint is given below.

Clipboard

• Cut (ctrl+x) – This option is use to cut the selected data.
• Copy (ctrl+c) – This option is use to copy the selected data.
• Paste (ctrl+v) – This option is use to paste the cut or copied data.
• Paste Special (alt+ctrl+v) – This option is use to paste the cut or copied data by creating a link from source data. After pasting with link, If source update or delete then pasted data will be also delete.
• Paste as hyperlink – This option is use to paste the data as hyper linked.
• Format painter- This option is use to copy and paste formatting.

Slides

• New Slide (ctrl+m) – This option is use to add a new Slide.
• Duplicate Slide (ctrl+d) – This option is use to duplicated the current slide.
• Layout – This option is use to change the layout of the slide.
• Reset – This option is use to reset the slide as default mode.
• Delete (del) – This option is use to remove the current slide from the presentation.

Font

• Font – This font Box is use to select different font styles for text matter.
• Font Size – This option is use to change the size of the selected text.
• Bold (ctrl+b) – This option make the selected text bold.
• Italic (ctrl+i) – This option make the selected text italic.
• Underline (ctrl+u) – This option is use to draw a line under the selected text.
• Strikethrough- This option is use to draw line in the middle of the selected text.
• Text Shadow – This option is use to add shadow effect to the selected text.
• Character Spacing – This option is use to adjust the spacing between the selected text of characters.
• Change Case- This option is use to change the case of the selected text as UPPER, lower, Sentence, tOGGLE.
• Increase Font Size (ctrl+Shift+ >) – This option is use to increase the size of selected text.
• Decrease Font Size (ctrl+shift+ <) – This option is use to decrease the size of selected text.
• Clear Formatting- This option clears all the formatting from the selected text and make the plain text.
• Font Color – This option is use to change the text/font color.

Paragraph

• Align Left ( ctrl + L) – This option moves the text left.
• Align Center ( ctrl + e) – This option moves the text center.
• Align Right ( ctrl + r) – This option moves the text right.
• Justify ( ctrl +j) – This option is use for adjusting the text equal from both sides.
• Line Spacing – This option is use for adjusting spaces between text lines or paragraph according to the user value.
• Bullets – This option is use to create a bullet list to describe the contents of any topic.
• Numbering – This option is use to create the number list to describe the contents of any topic .
• Increase Indent – This option is use to increase the indent position, so that we can move a paragraph or line right side.
• Decrease Indent – This option is use to decrease the indent position, so that we can move a paragraph or line left side.
• Column – This option is use to split the text matter in to two or more columns.
• Text Direction – This option is use to change the text direction in vertical, stacked or rotate the text in to desired direction.
• Align text – This option is use to align the text into box as center, top, bottom etc.
• Convert to SmartArt – This option is use to convert the text or a list in to SmartArt graphics.

Drawing

• Insert Shapes – This option is use to insert the different shapes in slides.
• Arrange – This option is use to arrange the multiple object or shape on the slide. We can arrange objects using options such as- order, position, rotate and group etc.
• Quick Styles – This option is use to choose different visual shape styles with different colors.
• Shape Fill – This option is use to fill the selected shape with a solid color, gradient, picture or texture etc.
• Shape Outline – This option is use to specify the color, width and line style for the outline of the selected shape.
• Shape Effects – This option is use to apply shadow effect to any shape as up, down, right, and left.

Editing

• Find (ctrl +f) –This option use to find the any text matter in slide.
• Replace (ctrl +h) – This option use to replace the any text with new text. User can replace multiple text at a time using Replace All option.
• Select – This option use to select the text or objects in the slide.