Adding Commands to Custom Groups in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

If you want to customize your Ribbon in PowerPoint, you'll want to add some of the commands that were not placed by default within any of the Ribbon tabs. Or maybe you want a particular command available on the Home tab of the Ribbon. Whatever your intent may be, you cannot place any commands within the existing groups that are built within PowerPoint. You first need to add a custom group within any of the tabs available in the Ribbon. Thereafter, you need to populate them with commands.

Follow these steps to learn how to add commands to custom groups in PowerPoint 2010:

1. You first need to bring up the PowerPoint Options dialog box, and there are two ways to summon this dialog box. The easier way is to right-click anywhere on the Ribbon, and choose the Customize the Ribbon option, as shown in Figure 1.
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   Figure 1: Customize the Ribbon option
3. Alternatively, access the File menu and choose Options as shown in Figure 2.
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   Figure 2: Options within File menu
2. Either way, this opens the PowerPoint Options dialog box, as shown in Figure 3. Make sure you choose the Customize Ribbon option within the sidebar. This shows the relevant options on the right side of the PowerPoint Options dialog box (see Figure 3 again).
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   Figure 3: PowerPoint Options dialog box
4. Now choose the custom Ribbon tab added, which already contains a new custom Group (highlighted in red within Figure 3, above). As you can see, our custom group is bereft of any commands.
3. To add commands within this custom group, make sure you select the custom group first, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 4.
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   Figure 4: Custom group selected
4. Next, choose any of the commands you want to add from within the Choose commands from list as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 4, above. Once you select the command, just click the Add button (highlighted in green within Figure 4, above).
Note: In Figure 4 above, you can see that we chose the Popular Commands category within in the Choose commands from list. You can click the Choose commands from list drop-down to find out more command categories, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: List of other command categories
5. This will add the selected command within the custom group, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 6.
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   Figure 6: Command added within custom group
6. Similarly, continue adding more commands. Figure 7 below shows more commands added to the custom group.
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   Figure 7: More command added within custom group
7. When done, click the OK button within the PowerPoint Options dialog box to get back to PowerPoint interface. Figure 8 below shows all the new commands added within the custom group.
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   Figure 8: Added commands showing on the Ribbon