History of PowerPoint
This person is credited as the main inventor of PowerPoint.
Robert Gaskins?
This bar displays the name of the current presentation.
Title Bar
This is the default view used to create and edit slides.
Normal View
To insert a picture or shape, you first click this tab.
Insert Tab
This command saves changes to the same file name.
Save
PowerPoint was originally developed under this name in 1984.
Presenter
This toolbar provides quick access to commonly used commands.
Quick Access Toolbar
This view displays slides as thumbnails in a matrix for easy rearrangement.
Slide Sorter View
This command allows you to add a new text box.
Text Box
By default, PowerPoint files are saved with this extension.
PPTX.
The first Macintosh version of PowerPoint was released on this date.
April 20, 1987?
This area is where you create and edit slides.
Slide Area
This view shows the presentation in full screen.
Slide Show View
This feature lets you insert tables, charts, multimedia, and symbols.
Insert menu
This command creates a copy of the file with a new name or format.
Save As
The first Windows version of PowerPoint was released in this year.
1990
Tabs, Groups, and Commands are the three components of this feature.
Ribbon
This view allows you to read the presentation like a book with navigation buttons.
Reading View
This group under the Insert tab allows you to add tables, charts, multimedia, and symbols.
Illustration Group
Saving a file as this type launches it directly in Slide Show view.
PowerPoint Show
PowerPoint was bundled into this larger suite of applications starting in the mid-1990s.
Microsoft Office
This section allows you to write notes for the presenter but not show them to the audience.
Note Section
This group of buttons is located near the Zoom control at the bottom of the screen.
Slide Views
This button lets you insert hyperlinks, files, or external sources via shapes.
Action Button
This shortcut saves a file, while this shortcut opens Save As.
Ctrl+S and F12