Quick Access to Your Favorite PowerPoint Features is Here

Do you find yourself spending more time in PowerPoint than you had anticipated? It happens to all of us as presenters. We sit down to make a few quick tweaks to our slide deck, and a couple of hours later, we’re wondering where the time went. Little tasks can get time-consuming when having to navigate through different parts of the toolbar and sort through a myriad of options. It’s great to have so many tools available, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could have quicker access to the tools that you use most? Well, you’re in luck! The Quick Access Toolbar is your new best friend!

Setting it Up

In this tutorial below, our Creative Director, Kyle, shows you step-by-step how to set up your ideal Quick Access Toolbar. You may remember him from our Selection Pane tutorial, which was also pretty life-changing for the average PowerPoint user.

 

Step-by-Step

We decided to type out the steps here for you in case you’re more of a blog reader than a tutorial-watcher. 😉

  1. To access the customization settings, click on the dropdown arrow next to the existing commands, and choose more commands.  Here you can find any tool in PowerPoint just by browsing.
  2. Select available commands from the list to the left
    Note: Popular Commands are listed by default. Access additional items from the “Choose commands from” dropdown.
  3. Next, double-click (or click “Add >>”) to move your selected tool into the box on the right. All of the items in the box on the right will be your Quick Access tools.

*Tip- Add the selection pane to your tool ribbon by clicking Home tab>Arrange>Selection Pane>Add. (Mind blown? Yeah, Kyle has that effect on people)

Anything we can do to make our workflow more efficient is considered a win in our books. Gaining quick access to our most used tools has saved us lots of time and stress over the years. We can only hope it will do the same for you! We’ve got more tutorials coming your way in the coming weeks, so keep checking back for more! In the meantime, if you find yourself stuck on your presentation, we’re here to help! Reach out today and we’d be happy to customize our content, design, and/or training services to suit your upcoming project!

 

 

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