Section 2.1. STUFF KEEPS MOVING AROUND

Chapter 2. Dumb Defaults

The development team for every computer application has to decide how the program will act straight out of the box. Sometimes they get the default behavior right, and sometimes they don't.

PowerPoint is no exception. In many places, the PowerPoint development team made very wise decisions regarding the default behavior for the program settings. In other places, well, let's just say those decisions were less than inspired.

In this chapter, we'll discuss some of the default settings in PowerPoint. You'll learn how to keep stuff from moving around when you don't want it to, how to restore some items that seem to be missing, and how to deal with file size issues.