Open and Close Tabs of Backstage View in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

When you click the File menu and access Backstage view in PowerPoint, you are presented with several options.

In this tutorial, we explore three of those tabs, as shown in Figure 1, below:

Open
Close
Exit

Figure 1: Open, Close, and Exit

Open

Follow these steps to open an existing file on your computer in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows:

1. Access the File menu, and choose the Open option, as shown in Figure 1, above.
2. Doing so brings up the Open dialog box, as shown in Figure 2, below. Navigate to wherever your presentation files are saved, and you can open any of them. You'll find that PowerPoint can open files of various formats (types).
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   Figure 2: Open
3. Select the presentation or file you want to open, and then click the Open button. Remember that the Open button has a down-arrow next to it. Clicking this down-arrow provides more Open options, as shown in Figure 3, below. Choose any of them; an explanation of these options follows.
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   Figure 3: Open options
5. Here's a brief explanation of these options:

1. Open

6. Open, the default option is the same as clicking the Open button.

2. Open Read-Only

7. Open Read-Only lets you open a read-only copy of the presentation. This is great if you don't want to make changes and overwrite the original presentation.

3. Open as Copy

8. Open as Copy lets you open a copy of the presentation, almost like creating a new presentation while leaving the original unaltered.

4. Open in Browser

9. Open in Browser works only with certain file formats, such as MHT. See file formats PowerPoint can open.

5. Open in Protected View

10. Open in Protected View lets you open a presentation with restrictions to protect your computer from damage. You can open potentially dangerous files, such as those downloaded from an unknown source on the Internet, in the Protected View.

6. Open and Repair

11. Open and Repair allows PowerPoint to attempt repair of a file that is possibly corrupt.

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Close and Exit

The Close option is used to close the active presentation. PowerPoint prompts you to save any unsaved changes.

The Exit option allows you to exit the program. If you have one or more presentations open without unsaved changes, you are prompted to save before the program exits.

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