Introducing Status Bar
Status Bar Contents
Introducing Status Bar
The Status Bar is a thin strip located at the bottom of the PowerPoint interface as shown in Figure 1. This area provides information about the active slide and applied Theme, and also provides View options.
If you have no presentation open in PowerPoint, the entire Status Bar area is grayed out.
Figure 1: Status Bar
Status Bar Contents
Let me show you some components of the Status Bar, Figure 2 marks some of these components so that we can refer to them in the explanations below:
Figure 2: Status Bar components
A. Slide
This displays the active slide number, as well as the number of slides in the open presentation.
B. Theme name
Here you can see the Theme that's been applied to the open presentation.
C. View Buttons
Here you can select the appropriate buttons to switch to the Normal, Slide Sorter, or Slide Show views. Shift click the same buttons to access the Slide Master view, Handout Master view, and the Set Up Show dialog box.
D. Zoom
Pull the slider left or right to zoom in or out, or click the zoom level to bring up the Zoom dialog box as shown in Figure 3, here you can specify the zoom level.
Figure 3: Zoom dialog box
E. Fit to Slide
Click this button to fit the slide in the available slide area.
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