Introduction

Once you've become familiar with Microsoft Office PowerPoint and all the features it contains, you might want to customize the way you work with PowerPoint. You can change your view settings so that your PowerPoint window looks the way you want it to. PowerPoint comes with set defaults, such as opening all documents using a certain view, showing the vertical ruler, or how many files you've recently opened, which you can change to a new default.

Some of the other PowerPoint customization features allow you to set a default font and related attributes to use when you are typing text in text boxes. Other defaults might be the color or line style of a shape object that you create. You can change the location of the Ribbon, and the configuration of the Quick Access Toolbar to include commands not available on the Ribbon.

When you want to scan one or more documents or faxes and recognize the text using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Microsoft Office Document Scanning and Document Imaging gives you the tools you need to quickly and easily scan and recognize text for use in PowerPoint. All you need is scanner hardware.

When you need to manage all the pictures on your computer, Microsoft Office Picture gives you a flexible way to organize, edit, and share your pictures. With Picture Manager, you can view all the pictures on your computer no matter where you store them. If you need to edit a picture, you can use Picture Manager to remove red eye and to change brightness, contrast, and color. You can also crop, rotate and flip, resize, and compress a picture.