![]() (15.24.0) / July 12, 2016; 17 months ago ( 2016-07-12) Microsoft PowerPoint is a, created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for $14 million three months after it appeared. This was Microsoft's first significant acquisition, and Microsoft set up a new business unit for PowerPoint in Silicon Valley where Forethought had been located. PowerPoint became a component of the Microsoft Office suite, first offered in 1989 for Macintosh and in 1990 for Windows, which bundled several Microsoft apps. Beginning with PowerPoint 4.0 (1994), PowerPoint was integrated into Microsoft Office development, and adopted shared common components and a converged user interface. PowerPoint's market share was very small at first, prior to introducing a version for Microsoft Windows, but grew rapidly with the growth of Windows and of Office. ![]() ( pp402–404) Since the late 1990s, PowerPoint's worldwide market share of presentation software has been estimated at 95 percent. PowerPoint was originally designed to provide visuals for group presentations within business organizations, but has come to be very widely used in many other communication situations, both in business and beyond. The impact of this much wider use of PowerPoint has been experienced as a powerful change throughout society, with strong reactions including advice that it should be used less, should be used differently, or should be used better. The first PowerPoint version (Macintosh 1987) was used to produce overhead transparencies, the second (Macintosh 1988, Windows 1990) could also produce color 35mm slides. The third version (Windows and Macintosh 1992) introduced video output of virtual slideshows to digital projectors, which would over time completely replace physical transparencies and slides. A dozen major versions since then have added many additional features and modes of operation and have made PowerPoint available beyond Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, adding versions for iOS, Android, and web access. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Creation at Forethought (1984–1987) [ ] PowerPoint was created by and Dennis Austin at a software in named Forethought had been founded in 1983 to create an integrated environment and applications for future personal computers that would provide a graphical user interface, but it had run into difficulties requiring a 'restart' and new plan. On July 5, 1984, Forethought hired Robert Gaskins as its vice president of product development ( p51) to create a new application that would be especially suited to the new personal computers, such as and. Gaskins produced his initial description of PowerPoint about a month later (August 14, 1984) in the form of a 2-page document titled 'Presentation Graphics for Overhead Projection.' By October 1984 Gaskins had selected Dennis Austin to be the developer for PowerPoint. Gaskins and Austin worked together on the definition and design of the new product for nearly a year, and produced the first specification document dated August 21, 1985. This first design document showed a product as it would look in Microsoft, which at that time had not been released. Development from that spec was begun by Austin in November 1985, for Macintosh first. ( p104) About six months later, on May 1, 1986, Gaskins and Austin chose a second developer to join the project, Thomas Rudkin. ( p149) Gaskins prepared two final product specification marketing documents in June 1986; these described a product for both Macintosh and Windows. ![]() Featured PowerPoint Templates and Themes. Powerful Presentations PowerPoint Smart Graphics Sampler PowerPoint Ion Blue PowerPoint Business digital blue tunnel presentation (widescreen) PowerPoint Organic Dark Wood PowerPoint Rainbow themed presentation PowerPoint Badge PowerPoint. PowerPoint has been around for much longer than, say, Google Slides or Apple Keynote—Microsoft released the first version in 1990. Plus, it's compatible with both PC and Mac. It's true that the PC and Mac versions are different, and the latter is usually not as good as the former. But versatility has always been PowerPoint's. Versatility has always been PowerPoint key differentiator from its competitors. If you need to create a presentation but you're not sure what hardware and software will be available when you have to deliver it, Microsoft PowerPoint is always your best bet. Besides, presenting is hard enough as it is – even for. ![]() At about the same time, Austin, Rudkin, and Gaskins produced a second and final major design specification document, this time showing a Macintosh look. Throughout this development period the product was called 'Presenter.' Then, just before release, there was a last-minute check with Forethought's lawyers to register the name as a trademark, and 'Presenter' was unexpectedly rejected because it had already been used by someone else. Gaskins says that he thought of 'PowerPoint', based on the product's goal of 'empowering' individual presenters, and sent that name to the lawyers for clearance, while all the documentation was hastily revised. Funding to complete development of PowerPoint was assured in mid-January, 1987, when a new Apple Computer venture capital fund, called Apple's Strategic Investment Group, selected PowerPoint to be its first investment. ( pp169–171) A month later, on February 22, 1987, Forethought announced PowerPoint at the Personal Computer Forum in Phoenix;, the CEO of Apple, appeared at the announcement and said 'We see desktop presentation as potentially a bigger market for Apple than desktop publishing.' PowerPoint 1.0 for Macintosh shipped from manufacturing on April 20, 1987, and the first production run of 10,000 units was sold out. Acquisition by Microsoft (1987–1992) [ ] By early 1987, Microsoft was starting to plan a new application to create presentations, an activity led by, who was head of marketing for the Applications Division. Microsoft assigned an internal group to write a specification and plan for a new presentation product. They contemplated an acquisition to speed up development, and in early 1987 Microsoft sent a letter of intent to acquire 's product called, an outlining program that could print its outlines as bullet charts. During this preparatory activity Raikes discovered that a program specifically to make overhead presentations was already being developed by Forethought, Inc., and that it was nearly completed. Raikes and others visited Forethought on February 6, 1987, for a confidential demonstration. ( p173) Raikes later recounted his reaction to seeing PowerPoint and his report about it to, who was initially skeptical: I thought, 'software to do overheads—that's a great idea.' I came back to see Bill. I said, 'Bill, I think we really ought to do this;' and Bill said, 'No, no, no, no, no, that's just a feature of Microsoft Word, just put it into Word.' And I kept saying, 'Bill, no, it's not just a feature of Microsoft Word, it's a whole genre of how people do these presentations.' And, to his credit, he listened to me and ultimately allowed me to go forward and. Buy this company in Silicon Valley called Forethought, for the product known as PowerPoint. When PowerPoint was released by Forethought, its initial press was favorable; the Wall Street Journal reported on early reactions: 'I see about one product a year I get this excited about,' says Amy Wohl, a consultant in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. 'People will buy a Macintosh just to get access to this product. ' On April 28, 1987, a week after shipment, a group of Microsoft's senior executives spent another day at Forethought to hear about initial PowerPoint sales on Macintosh and plans for Windows. ( p191) The following day, Microsoft sent a letter to Dave Winer withdrawing its earlier letter of intent to acquire his company, and in mid-May 1987 Microsoft sent a letter of intent to acquire Forethought. As requested in that letter of intent, Robert Gaskins from Forethought went to Redmond for a one-on-one meeting with Bill Gates in early June, 1987, ( p197) and by the end of July an agreement was concluded for an acquisition. The New York Times reported. July 30— The Microsoft Corporation announced its first significant software acquisition today, paying $14 million [$30.2 million in present-day terms ] for Forethought Inc. Of Sunnyvale, Calif. Forethought makes a program called PowerPoint that allows users of Apple Macintosh computers to make overhead transparencies or flip charts. [T]he acquisition of Forethought is the first significant one for Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash. Forethought would remain in Sunnyvale, giving Microsoft a Silicon Valley presence. The unit will be headed by Robert Gaskins, Forethought's vice president of product development. Microsoft's president offered Microsoft's motivation for the acquisition: 'We made this deal primarily because of our belief in desktop presentations as a product category. Forethought was first to market with a product in this category. ' Microsoft set up within its Applications Division an independent 'Graphics Business Unit' to develop and to market PowerPoint, the first Microsoft application group distant from the main Redmond location. All the PowerPoint people from Forethought joined Microsoft, and the new location was headed by Robert Gaskins, with Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin leading development. PowerPoint 1.0 for Macintosh was modified to indicate the new Microsoft ownership and continued to be sold. A new PowerPoint 2.0 for Macintosh, adding color 35mm slides, appeared by mid-1988, and again won good reviews. The same PowerPoint 2.0 product re-developed for Windows was shipped two years later, in mid-1990, at the same time as. Much of the color technology was the fruit of a joint development partnership with, at that time the dominant presentation services company. PowerPoint 3.0, which was shipped in 1992 for both Windows and Mac, added live video for projectors and monitors, with the result that PowerPoint was thereafter used for delivering presentations as well as for preparing them. This was at first an alternative to overhead transparencies and 35mm slides, but over time would come to replace them. Part of Microsoft Office (since 1993) [ ]. See also: PowerPoint had been included in from the beginning. PowerPoint 2.0 for Macintosh was part of the first Office bundle for Macintosh which was offered in mid-1989. When PowerPoint 2.0 for Windows appeared, a year later, it was part of a similar Office bundle for Windows, which was offered in late 1990. Both of these were bundling promotions, in which the independent applications were packaged together and offered for a lower total price. PowerPoint 3.0 (1992) was again separately specified and developed, and was prominently advertised and sold separately from Office. It was, as before, included in, both for Windows and the corresponding version for Macintosh. A plan to integrate the applications themselves more tightly had been indicated as early as February 1991, toward the end of PowerPoint 3.0 development, in an internal memo by Bill Gates: Another important question is what portion of our applications sales over time will be a set of applications versus a single product. Please assume that we stay ahead in integrating our family together in evaluating our future strategies—the product teams WILL deliver on this. I believe that we should position the 'OFFICE' as our most important application. The move from bundling separate products to integrated development began with PowerPoint 4.0, developed in 1993–1994 under new management from Redmond. The PowerPoint group in Silicon Valley was reorganized from the independent 'Graphics Business Unit' (GBU) to become the 'Graphics Product Unit' (GPU) for Office, and PowerPoint 4.0 changed to adopt a converged user interface and other components shared with the other apps in Office. When it was released, the computer press reported on the change approvingly: 'PowerPoint 4.0 has been re-engineered from the ground up to resemble and work with the latest applications in Office: Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, and Access 2.0. The integration is so good, you'll have to look twice to make sure you're running PowerPoint and not Word or Excel.' Office integration was further underscored in the following version, PowerPoint 95, which was given the version number PowerPoint 7.0 (skipping 5.0 and 6.0) so that all the components of Office would share the same major version number. Although PowerPoint by this point had become part of the integrated Microsoft Office product, its development remained in Silicon Valley. Succeeding versions of PowerPoint introduced important changes, particularly version 12.0 (2007) which had a very different shared Office ' user interface, and a new shared. This marked the 20th anniversary of PowerPoint, and Microsoft held an event to commemorate that anniversary at its Silicon Valley Campus for the PowerPoint team there. Special guests were Robert Gaskins, Dennis Austin, and Thomas Rudkin, and the featured speaker was Jeff Raikes, all from PowerPoint 1.0 days, 20 years before. Since then major development of PowerPoint as part of Office has continued. New development techniques (shared across Office) for PowerPoint 2016 have made it possible to ship versions of PowerPoint 2016 for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and web access nearly simultaneously, and to release new features on a nearly-monthly schedule. PowerPoint development is still located in Silicon Valley as of 2017. In 2010, Jeff Raikes, who had most recently been President of the Business Division of Microsoft (including responsibility for Office), observed: 'of course, today we know that PowerPoint is often times the number two—or in some cases even the number one—most-used tool' among the applications in Office. Sales and market share [ ] PowerPoint's initial sales were about 40,000 copies sold in 1987 (nine months), about 85,000 copies in 1988, and about 100,000 copies in 1989, all for Macintosh. PowerPoint's market share in its first three years was a tiny part of the total presentation market, which was very heavily dominated by applications on PCs. The market leaders on MS-DOS in 1988-1989 were (introduced by in 1986 ) in first place, and (also introduced in 1986 ) as a strong second. They were competing with more than a dozen other MS-DOS presentation products, and Microsoft did not develop a PowerPoint version for MS-DOS. After three years, PowerPoint sales were disappointing. Jeff Raikes, who had bought PowerPoint for Microsoft, later recalled: 'By 1990, it looked like it wasn't a very smart idea [for Microsoft to have acquired PowerPoint], because not very many people were using PowerPoint.' This began to change when the first version for Windows, PowerPoint 2.0, brought sales up to about 200,000 copies in 1990 and to about 375,000 copies in 1991, with Windows units outselling Macintosh. ( p403) PowerPoint sold about 1 million copies in 1992, of which about 80 percent were for Windows and about 20 percent for Macintosh, ( p403) and in 1992 PowerPoint's market share of worldwide presentation graphics software sales was reported as 63 percent. ( p404) By the last six months of 1992, PowerPoint revenue was running at a rate of over $100 million annually ($215 million in present-day terms ). ( p405) Sales of PowerPoint 3.0 doubled to about 2 million copies in 1993, of which about 90 percent were for Windows and about 10 percent for Macintosh, ( p403) and in 1993 PowerPoint's market share of worldwide presentation graphics software sales was reported as 78 percent. ( p404) In both years, about half of total revenue came from sales outside the U.S. ( p404) By 1997 PowerPoint sales had doubled again, to more than 4 million copies annually, representing 85 percent of the world market. Also in 1997, an internal publication from the PowerPoint group said that by then over 20 million copies of PowerPoint were in use, and that total revenues from PowerPoint over its first ten years (1987 to 1996) had already exceeded $1 billion. Since the late 1990s, PowerPoint's market share of total world presentation software has been estimated at 95 percent by both industry and academic sources. Operation [ ] The earliest version of PowerPoint (1987 for Macintosh) could be used to print black and white pages to be photocopied onto for projection from, and to print speaker's notes and audience handouts; the next version (1988 for Macintosh, 1990 for Windows) was extended to also produce by communicating a file over a modem to a imaging center with slides returned by overnight delivery for projection from. PowerPoint was used for planning and preparing a presentation, but not for delivering it (apart from previewing it on a computer screen, or distributing printed paper copies). The operation of PowerPoint changed substantially in its third version (1992 for Windows and Macintosh), when PowerPoint was extended to also deliver a presentation by producing direct video output to or large monitors. In 1992 video projection of presentations was rare and expensive, and practically unknown from a laptop computer. Robert Gaskins, one of the creators of PowerPoint, says he publicly demonstrated that use for the first time at a large Microsoft meeting held in Paris on February 25, 1992, by using an unreleased development build of PowerPoint 3.0 running on an early pre-production sample of a powerful new color laptop and feeding a. ( pp373–375) By about 2003, ten years later, digital projection had become the dominant mode of use, replacing transparencies and 35mm slides and their projectors. ( pp410–414) As a result, the meaning of 'PowerPoint presentation' narrowed to mean specifically digital projection. In the business lexicon, 'PowerPoint presentation' had come to refer to a presentation made using a PowerPoint slideshow projected from a computer. Although the PowerPoint software had been used to generate transparencies for over a decade, this usage was not typically encompassed by common understanding of the term. In contemporary operation, PowerPoint is used to create a file (called a 'presentation' or 'deck' ) containing a sequence of pages (called 'slides' in the app) which usually have a consistent style (from template masters), and which may contain information imported from other apps or created in PowerPoint, including text, bullet lists, tables, charts, drawn shapes, images, audio clips, video clips, animations of elements, and animated transitions between slides, plus attached notes for each slide. After such a file is created, typical operation is to present it as a using a portable computer, where the presentation file is stored on the computer or available from a network, and the computer's screen shows a 'presenter view' with current slide, next slide, speaker's notes for the current slide, and other information. Video is sent from the computer to one or more external digital projectors or monitors, showing only the current slide to the audience, with sequencing controlled by the speaker at the computer. A smartphone remote control built in to PowerPoint for iOS (optionally controlled from Apple Watch) and for Android allows the presenter to control the show from elsewhere in the room. A PowerPoint presentation in progress PowerPoint, more than most other personal computer applications, has been experienced as a powerful force producing change throughout all of society. In 2016 an analyst summed up: 'the real mystery is. 'how come almost every organisation in the world is using PowerPoint to communicate almost everything to almost everybody?' That's the real question. How come PowerPoint is everywhere?' Business uses [ ] PowerPoint was originally targeted just for business presentations. Robert Gaskins, who was responsible for its design, has written about his intended customers: '. I did not target other existing large groups of users of presentations, such as school teachers or military officers. I also did not plan to target people who were not existing users of presentations. Such as clergy and school children.. Our focus was purely on business users, in small and large companies, from one person to the largest multinationals.' ( pp76–77) Business people had for a long time made presentations for sales calls and for internal company communications, and PowerPoint produced the same formats in the same style and for the same purposes. ( p420) PowerPoint use in business grew over its first five years (1987-1992) to sales of about 1 million copies annually, for worldwide market share of 63 percent. Over the following five years (1992-1997) PowerPoint sales accelerated, to a rate of about 4 million copies annually, for worldwide market share of 85 percent. The increase in business use has been attributed to ',' whereby additional users of PowerPoint in a company or an industry increased its salience and value to other users. Not everyone immediately approved of the greater use of PowerPoint for presentations, even in business. CEOs who very early were reported to discourage or ban PowerPoint presentations at internal business meetings included (at IBM, in 1993), (at Sun Microsystems, in 1996), and (at Apple, in 1997). But even so, Rich Gold, a scholar who studied corporate presentation use at, could write in 1999: 'Within today's corporation, if you want to communicate an idea. You use PowerPoint.' Uses beyond business [ ] At the same time that PowerPoint was becoming dominant in business settings, it was also being adopted for uses beyond business: 'Personal computing. Scaled up the production of presentations. The result has been the rise of presentation culture. In an information society, nearly everyone presents.' In 1998, at about the same time that Gold was pronouncing PowerPoint's ubiquity in business, the influential engineer could already write about broader uses. The world has run amok with the giddy power of presentation graphics. A new language is in the air, and it is codified in PowerPoint. In a family discussion about what to do on a given evening, for example, I feel like pulling out my laptop and giving a presentation.. In church I am surprised that the preachers haven't caught on yet. How have we gotten on so long without PowerPoint? See also: An early reaction was that the broader use of PowerPoint was a mistake, and should be reversed. An influential example of this came from, an authority on information design, who has been a professor of political science, statistics, and computer science at Princeton and Yale, but is best known for his self-published books on data visualization, which have sold nearly 2 million copies as of 2014. In 2003, he published a widely-read booklet titled The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, revised in 2006. Tufte found a number of problems with the 'cognitive style' of PowerPoint, many of which he attributed to the standard default style templates: PowerPoint's convenience for some presenters is costly to the content and the audience. See also: and A second reaction to PowerPoint use was to say that PowerPoint can be used well, but only by substantially changing its style of use. This reaction is exemplified by, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has studied cognition and learning, particularly the design of educational multimedia, and who has published more than 500 publications, including over 30 books. Mayer's theme has been that 'In light of the science, it is up to us to make a fundamental shift in our thinking—we can no longer expect people to struggle to try to adapt to our PowerPoint habits. Instead, we have to change our PowerPoint habits to align with the way people learn.' Tufte had argued his judgment that the information density of text on PowerPoint slides was too low, perhaps only 40 words on a slide, leading to over-simplified messages; Mayer responded that his empirical research showed exactly the opposite, that the amount of text on PowerPoint slides was usually too high, and that even fewer than 40 words on a slide resulted in 'PowerPoint overload' that impeded understanding during presentations. Mayer suggested a few major changes from traditional PowerPoint formats: • replacing brief slide titles with longer 'headlines' expressing complete ideas; • showing more slides but simpler ones; • removing almost all text including nearly all bullet lists (reserving the text for the spoken narration); • using larger, higher-quality, and more important graphics and photographs; • removing all extraneous decoration, backgrounds, logos and identifications, everything but the essential message. Mayer's ideas are claimed by to have been reflected in Steve Jobs's presentations: 'Mayer outlined fundamental principles of multimedia design based on what scientists know about cognitive functioning. Steve Jobs's slides adhere to each of Mayer's principles..' ( p92) Though not unique to Jobs, many people saw the style for the first time in Jobs's famous product introductions. Steve Jobs would have been using Apple's which was designed for Jobs's own slide shows beginning in 2003, but Gallo says that 'speaking like Jobs has little to do with the type of presentation software you use (PowerPoint, Keynote,etc.). All the techniques apply equally to PowerPoint and Keynote.' ( pp14,46) Gallo adds that 'Microsoft's PowerPoint has one big advantage over Apple's Keynote presentation software—it's everywhere. It's safe to say that the number of Keynote presentations is miniscule in comparison with PowerPoint. Although most presentation designers who are familiar with both formats prefer to work in the more elegant Keynote system, those same designers will tell you that the majority of their client work is done in PowerPoint.' ( p44) Consistent with its association with Steve Jobs's keynotes, a response to this style has been that it is particularly effective for 'ballroom-style presentations' (as often given in conference center ballrooms) where a celebrated and practiced speaker addresses a large passive audience, but less appropriate for 'conference room-style presentations' which are often recurring internal business meetings for in-depth discussion with motivated counterparts. Use it better [ ]. See also: A third reaction to PowerPoint use was to conclude that the standard style is capable of being used well, but that many small points need to be executed carefully, to avoid impeding understanding. This kind of analysis is particularly associated with, a cognitive neuroscientist who specializes in the psychology of learning and visual communication, and who has been head of the department of psychology at Harvard, has been Director of Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and has published some 300 papers and 14 books. Kosslyn presented a set of psychological principles of 'human perception, memory, and comprehension' that 'appears to capture the major points of agreement among researchers.' He reports that his experiments support the idea that that it is not intuitive or obvious how to create effective PowerPoint presentations that conform to those agreed principles, and that even small differences that might not seem significant to a presenter can produce very different results in audiences' understanding. For this reason, Kosslyn says, users need specific education to be able to identify best ways to avoid 'flaws and failures': Specifically, we hypothesized and found that the psychological principles are often violated in PowerPoint slideshows across different fields., that some types of presentation flaws are noticeable and annoying to audience members., and that observers have difficulty identifying many violations in graphical displays in individual slides.. These studies converge in painting the following picture: PowerPoint presentations are commonly flawed; some types of flaws are more common than others; flaws are not isolated to one domain or context; and, although some types of flaws annoy the audience, flaws at the level of slide design are not always obvious to an untrained observer.. The many 'flaws and failures' identified were those 'likely to disrupt the comprehension or memory of the material.' Among the most common examples were 'Bulleted items are not presented individually, growing the list from the top to the bottom,' 'More than four bulleted items appear in a single list,' 'More than two lines are used per bulleted sentence,' and 'Words are not large enough (i.e., greater than 20 point) to be easily seen.' Among audience reactions common problems reported were 'Speakers read word-for-word from notes or from the slides themselves,' 'The slides contained too much material to absorb before the next slide was presented,' and 'The main point was obscured by lots of irrelevant detail.' Kosslyn observes that these findings could help to explain why the many studies of instructional effectiveness of PowerPoint have been inconclusive and conflicting, if there were differences in the quality of the presentations tested in different studies that went unobserved because 'many may feel that 'good design' is intuitively clear.' In 2007 Kosslyn wrote a book about PowerPoint, in which he suggested a very large number of fairly modest changes to PowerPoint styles and gave advice on recommended ways of using PowerPoint. In a later second book about PowerPoint he suggested nearly 150 clarifying style changes (in fewer than 150 pages). Kosslyn summarizes: ( pp2–3,200). There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the PowerPoint program as a medium; rather, I claim that the problem lies in how it is used. In fact, this medium is a remarkably versatile tool that can be extraordinarily effective. For many purposes, PowerPoint presentations are a superior medium of communication, which is why they have become standard in so many fields. In 2017, an online poll of social media users in the UK was reported to show that PowerPoint 'remains as popular with young tech-savvy users as it is with the Baby Boomers,' with about four out of five saying that 'PowerPoint was a great tool for making presentations,' in part because 'PowerPoint, with its capacity to be highly visual, bridges the wordy world of yesterday with the visual future of tomorrow.' Also in 2017, the Managerial Communication Group of polled their incoming MBA students, finding that 'results underscore just how differently this generation communicates as compared with older workers.' Fewer than half of respondents reported doing any meaningful, longer-form writing at work, and even that minority mostly did so very infrequently, but '85 percent of students named producing presentations as a meaningful part of their job responsibilities. Two-thirds report that they present on a daily or weekly basis—so it's no surprise that in-person presentations is the top skill they hope to improve.' One of the researchers concluded: 'We're not likely to see future workplaces with long-form writing. The trend is toward presentations and slides, and we don't see any sign of that slowing down.' Military excess [ ] Use of PowerPoint by the U.S. Military services began slowly, because they were invested in mainframe computers, MS-DOS PCs, and specialized military-specification graphic output devices, all of which PowerPoint did not support. But because of the strong military tradition of presenting, as soon as they acquired the computers needed to run it, PowerPoint became part of the U.S. By 2000, ten years after PowerPoint for Windows appeared, it was already identified as an important feature of U.S. Armed forces culture, in a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal: Old-fashioned slide briefings, designed to update generals on troop movements, have been a staple of the military since World War II. But in only a few short years PowerPoint has altered the landscape. Just as word processing made it easier to produce long, meandering memos, the spread of PowerPoint has unleashed a blizzard of jazzy but often incoherent visuals. Instead of drawing up a dozen slides on a legal pad and running them over to the graphics department, captains and colonels now can create hundreds of slides in a few hours without ever leaving their desks. If the spirit moves them they can build in gunfire sound effects and images that explode like land mines. PowerPoint has become such an ingrained part of the defense culture that it has seeped into the military lexicon. 'PowerPoint Ranger' is a derogatory term for a desk-bound bureaucrat more adept at making slides than tossing grenades. Military use of PowerPoint may have influenced its use by armed forces of other countries: 'Foreign armed services also are beginning to get in on the act. 'You can't speak with the U.S. Military without knowing PowerPoint,' says Margaret Hayes, an instructor at National Defense University in Washington D.C., who teaches Latin American military officers how to use the software.' After another 10 years, in 2010 (and again on its front page) the New York Times reported that PowerPoint use in the military was then 'a military tool that has spun out of control': Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan. Commanders say that behind all the PowerPoint jokes are serious concerns that the program stifles discussion, critical thinking and thoughtful decision-making. Not least, it ties up junior officers. In the daily preparation of slides, be it for a Joint Staff meeting in Washington or for a platoon leader's pre-mission combat briefing in a remote pocket of Afghanistan. The New York Times account went on to say that as a result some U.S. Generals had banned the use of PowerPoint in their operations: 'PowerPoint makes us stupid,' Gen. Of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen., who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat. 'It's dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,' General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. 'Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.' Several incidents, about the same time, gave wide currency to discussions by serving military officers describing excessive PowerPoint use and the organizational culture that encouraged it. In response to the New York Times story, and sent a joint letter to the editor stressing the institutional culture of the military: '. Many military personnel bemoan the overuse and misuse of PowerPoint. The problem is not in the tool itself, but in the way that people use it—which is partly a result of how institutions promote misuse. The two generals who had been mentioned in 2010 as opposing the institutional culture of excessive PowerPoint use were both in the news again in 2017, when became U.S. Secretary of Defense, and was appointed as U.S. National Security Advisor. Artistic medium [ ] Musician has been using PowerPoint as a medium for art for years, producing a book and DVD and showing at galleries his PowerPoint-based artwork. Byrne has written: 'I have been working with PowerPoint, the ubiquitous presentation software, as an art medium for a number of years. It started off as a joke (this software is a symbol of corporate salesmanship, or lack thereof) but then the work took on a life of its own as I realized I could create pieces that were moving, despite the limitations of the 'medium. ' In 2005 Byrne toured with a theater piece styled as a PowerPoint presentation. When he presented it in Berkeley, on March 8, 2005, the University of California news service reported: 'Byrne also defended its [PowerPoint's] appeal as more than just a business tool—as a medium for art and theater. His talk was titled 'I ♥ PowerPoint'.. Berkeley alumnus Bob Gaskins and Dennis Austin. Were in the audience.. Eventually, Byrne said, PowerPoint could be the foundation for 'presentational theater,' with roots in Brechtian drama and Asian puppet theater.' After that performance, Byrne described it in his own online journal: 'Did the PowerPoint talk in Berkeley for an audience of IT legends and academics. I was terrified. The guys that originally turned PowerPoint into a program were there, what were THEY gonna think? [Gaskins] did tell me afterwards that he liked the PowerPoint as theater idea, which was a relief.' The expressions 'PowerPoint Art' or ' are used to define a contemporary Italian artistic movement which believes that the corporate world can be a unique and exceptional source of inspiration for the artist. They say: 'The pptArt name refers to PowerPoint, the symbolic and abstract language developed by the corporate world which has become a universal and highly symbolic communication system beyond cultures and borders.' The wide use of PowerPoint had, by 2010, given rise to '. A subculture of PowerPoint enthusiasts [that] is teaching the old application new tricks, and may even be turning a dry presentation format into a full-fledged artistic medium,' by using to create 'games, artworks, anime, and movies.' PowerPoint Viewer [ ] PowerPoint Viewer is the name for a series of small free application programs to be used on computers without PowerPoint installed, to view, project, or print (but not create or edit) presentations. The first version was introduced with PowerPoint 3.0 in 1992, to enable electronic presentations to be projected using conference-room computers and to be freely distributed; on Windows, it took advantage of the new feature of embedding fonts within PowerPoint presentation files to make such distribution easier. The same kind of viewer app was shipped with PowerPoint 3.0 for Macintosh, also in 1992. Beginning with PowerPoint 2003, a feature called 'Package for CD' automatically managed all linked video and audio files plus needed fonts when exporting a presentation to a disk or flash drive or network location, and also included a copy of a revised PowerPoint Viewer application so that the result could be presented on other PCs without installing anything. The latest version that runs on Windows 'was created in conjunction with PowerPoint 2010, but it can also be used to view newer presentations created in PowerPoint 2013 and PowerPoint 2016. All transitions, videos and effects appear and behave the same when viewed using PowerPoint Viewer as they do when viewed in PowerPoint 2010.' It supports presentations created using PowerPoint 97 and later. The latest version that runs on Macintosh is PowerPoint 98 Viewer for the and, for Macs supporting System 7.5 to (10.4). It can open presentations only from PowerPoint 3.0, 4.0, and 8.0 (PowerPoint 98), although presentations created on Mac can be opened in PowerPoint Viewer on Windows. As of 2017, the latest versions of PowerPoint Viewer for Windows (2010) and for Macintosh (1998) remain available for download. But in November, 2017, Microsoft announced that the PowerPoint Viewers for Windows (both the 2010 and 2007 versions) 'will be retired in April, 2018' and 'at that time, they will no longer be available for download and will no longer receive security updates.' The recommended replacements: 'On Windows 10 PCs, download the free. PowerPoint Mobile application from the Windows Store,' and 'On Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 PCs, upload the file to OneDrive and view it for free using. PowerPoint Online.' Versions [ ] Legend: Old version Older version, still supported Current stable version Latest preview version Future release PowerPoint release history Date Name Version System Comments 87- April 1987 PowerPoint Old version, no longer supported: 1.0 Macintosh Shipped by Forethought, Inc. Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011 PowerPoint 1.0 For Macintosh: April 1987 Innovations included: multiple slides in a single file, organizing slides with a slide sorter view and a title view (precursor of outline view), speakers' notes pages attached to each slide, printing of audience handouts with multiple slides per page, text with outlining styles and full word-processor formatting, graphic shapes with attached text for drawing diagrams and tables. It also shipped with a hardbound book as its manual. 'It produced overhead transparencies on a black-and-white Macintosh for laser printing. Presenters could now directly control their own overheads and would no longer have to work through the person with the typewriter. PowerPoint handled the task of making the overheads all look alike; one change reformats them all. Typographic fonts were better than an Orator typeball, and charts and diagrams could be imported from MacDraw, MacPaint, and Excel, thanks to the new Mac clipboard.' System requirements: (Mac) Original Macintosh or better, System 1.0 or higher, 512K RAM. PowerPoint 2.0 For Macintosh: May 1988; for Windows: May 1990 Part of and. Innovations included: color, more word processing features, find and replace, spell checking, color schemes for presentations, guide to color selection, ability to change color scheme retrospectively, shaded coloring for fills. 'It added color 35mm slides, transmitting the resulting file over a modem to Genigraphics for imaging on Genigraphics' film recorders and photo processing in Genigraphics' labs overnight. Genigraphics was the leading professional service bureau, having developed its own Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-11-based computer systems for its artists. After a short time, though, Genigraphics itself switched to PowerPoint.' System requirements: (Mac) Original Macintosh or better, System 4.1 or higher, 1 MB RAM. (Windows) 286 PC or higher, Windows 3.0, 1 MB RAM. PowerPoint 3.0 For Windows, May 1992; for Mac: September 1992 Part of and. Innovations included: the first application designed exclusively for the new Windows 3.1 platform, full support for TrueType fonts (new in Windows 3.1), presentation templates, editing in outline view, new drawing, including freeform tool, autoshapes, flip, rotate, scale, align, and transforming imported pictures into their drawing primitives to make them editable, transitions between slides in slide show, progressive builds, incorporating sound and video. Animations included 'flying bullets' where bullet points 'flew' into the slide one by one, and some degree of Pen Computing support was included. 'It added video-out to feed the new video projectors, with effects that could replace a bank of synchronized slide projectors. This version added fades, dissolves, and other transitions, as well as animation of text and pictures, and could incorporate video clips with synchronized audio.' System requirements: (Windows) 286 PC or higher, Windows 3.1, 2 MB RAM. (Mac) Macintosh Plus or better, System 7 or higher, 4 MB RAM. PowerPoint 4.0 For Windows: February 1994; for Mac: October 1994 Part of and. Innovations included: autolayouts, Word tables, rehearsal mode, hidden slides, and the 'AutoContent Wizard.' Introduced a standard 'Microsoft Office' look and feel (shared with Word and Excel), with status bar, toolbars, tooltips. Full 2.0 with in-place activation. System requirements: (Windows) 386 PC or higher, Windows 3.1, 8 MB RAM. (Mac) 68020 Mac or better, System 7 or higher, 8 MB RAM. PowerPoint 7.0 For Windows: July 1995 Part of. Innovations included: new animation effects, real curves and textures, black and white view, autocorrect, insert symbol, meeting support features such as 'Meeting Minder.' 'A complete rewrite of the product from the ground up in C++, full object model with internal programmability.' System requirements: (Windows) 386 DX PC or higher, Windows 95, 6 MB RAM. PowerPoint 8.0 For Windows: January 1997; for Mac: March 1998 Part of and. Innovations included: 'Office Assistant,' file compression, save to HTML, 'Pack and Go,' 'AutoClipArt,' transparent GIFs. System requirements: (Windows) 486 PC or higher, 8 MB RAM. (Mac) PowerPC Mac or better, 16 MB RAM. PowerPoint 9.0 For Windows: June 1999; for Mac: August 2000 Part of and. Innovations included: three-pane 'browser' view (selectable list of slide miniatures or titles, large single slide, notes), autofit text, real tables, presentation conferencing, save to web, picture bullets, animated GIFs, aliased fonts. System requirements: (Windows) Pentium 75MHz+, Windows 95 or higher, 20 MB RAM. (Mac) PowerPC Mac 120MHz+ or better, MacOS 8.5 or higher, minimum 48 MB RAM. PowerPoint 10.0 For Windows: May 2001; for Mac: November 2001 Part of and. Innovations included: install from web, most clipart on web, use of Exchange and SharePoint for storage and collaboration. System requirements: (Windows) Pentium III, Windows 98 or higher, 40 MB RAM. (Mac) OS X 10.1 ('Puma') or later (will not run under OS 9). PowerPoint 11.0 For Windows: October 2003; for Mac: June 2004; for Mobile: May 2005 Part of and. Innovations included: tools visible to presenter during slide show (notes, thumbnails, time clock, re-order and edit slides), 'Package for CD' to write presentation and viewer app to CD. 'Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2003' was a free plug-in from Microsoft, using a video camera, 'that creates Web page presentations, with talking head narration, coordinated and timed to your existing PowerPoint presentation' for delivery over the web. The Genigraphics software to send a presentation for imaging as 35mm slides was removed from this version. System requirements: (Windows) Pentium 233Mhz+, Windows XP or later, 128 MB RAM. (Mac) Power Mac G3 or better, OS X 10.2.8 or later, 256 MB RAM. PowerPoint 12.0 For Windows: January 2007; for Mobile: September 2007; for Mac: January 2008 Part of and. Innovations included: new user interface ('Office Fluent') employing a changeable 'ribbon' of tools across the top to replace menus and toolbars, SmartArt graphics, many graphical improvements in text and drawing, improved 'Presenter View' (from 2003), widescreen slide formats. The 'AutoContent Wizard' was removed from this version. A major change in PowerPoint 2007 was from a binary file format, used from 1997 to 2003, to a new XML file format which evolved over further versions. System requirements: (Windows) 500 MHz processor or higher, Windows XP with SP2 or later, 256 MB RAM. (Mac) 500 MHz processor or higher, MacOS X 10.4.9 or later, 512 MB RAM. PowerPoint 14.0 For Windows: June 2010; for Web: June 2010; for Mobile: June 2010; for Mac: November 2010, for Symbian: April 2012 Part of and. Innovations included: Single document interface (SDI), sections within presentations, reading view, redesign of 'Backstage' functions (under File menu), save as video, insert video from web, embed video and audio, enhanced editing for video and for pictures, broadcast slideshow. System requirements: (Windows) 500 MHz processor or higher, Windows XP with SP3 or later, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB RAM recommended for video. (Mac) Intel processor, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later, 1 GB RAM. PowerPoint 15.0 For Web: October 2012; for Mobile: November 2012; for Windows RT: November 2012; for Windows: January 2013; for iPhone: June 2013; for Android: July 2013; for Web: February 2014; for iPad: March 2014; for iOS: November 2014; for Mac: July 2015 Part of and. Innovations included: Change default slide shape to 16:9 aspect ratio, online collaboration by multiple authors, user interface redesigned for multi-touch screens, improved audio, video, animations, and transitions, further changes to Presenter View. Clipart collections (and insertion tool) were removed, but available online. System requirements: (Windows) 1 GHz processor or faster, x86- or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set, Windows 7 or later, 1 GB RAM (32-bit), 2 GB RAM (64-bit). (Mac) Intel processor, Mac OS X 10.10 or later, 4 GB RAM. PowerPoint 16.0 For Android: June 2015; for Mobile: July 2015; for iOS: July 2015; for Windows: September 2015; and Windows Store: June 2017 Part of. Innovations included: 'Tell me' to search for program controls, 'PowerPoint Designer' pane, Morph transition, real-time collaboration, 'Zoom' to slides or sections in slideshow, and 'Presentation Translator' for real-time translation of a presenter's spoken words to on-screen captions in any of 60+ languages, with the system analyzing the text of the PowerPoint presentation as context to increase the accuracy and relevance of the translations. System requirements: (Windows) 1 GHz processor or faster, x86- or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set, Windows 7 with SP 1 or later, 2 GB RAM. File formats [ ] PowerPoint Presentation.pptx,.ppt application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt Developed by Type of format Binary (1987–2007) [ ] Early versions of PowerPoint, from 1987 through 1995 (versions 1.0 through 7.0), evolved through a sequence of binary file formats, different in each version, as functionality was added. That resulted in a stable binary format (called a.ppt file, like all earlier binary formats) that was shared as the default in PowerPoint 97 through PowerPoint 2003 for Windows, and in PowerPoint 98 through PowerPoint 2004 for Mac (that is, in PowerPoint versions 8.0 through 11.0). The specification document is actively maintained and can be freely downloaded, because, although no longer the default, that binary format can be read and written by some later versions of PowerPoint, including the current PowerPoint 2016. After the stable binary format was adopted, versions of PowerPoint continued to be able to read and write differing file formats from earlier versions. But beginning with PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2008 for Mac (PowerPoint version 12.0), this was the only binary format available for saving; PowerPoint 2007 (version 12.0) no longer supported saving to binary file formats used earlier than PowerPoint 97 (version 8.0), ten years before. Binary •.ppt, PowerPoint 97–2003 binary presentation •.pps, PowerPoint 97–2003 binary slide show •.pot, PowerPoint 97–2003 binary template Binary •.ppt, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint •.pps, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint •.pot, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint Office Open XML (since 2007) [ ] The big change in PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2008 for Mac (PowerPoint version 12.0) was that the stable binary file format of 97–2003 was replaced as the default by a new -based format (.pptx files). Microsoft's explanation of the benefits of the change included: smaller file sizes, up to 75% smaller than comparable binary documents; security, through being able to identify and exclude executable macros and personal data; less chance to be corrupted than binary formats; and easier interoperability for exchanging data among Microsoft and other business applications, all while maintaining backward compatibility. 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This update also includes a bunch of small bug fixes and the following two new features: •, and • Images on buttons. What's cool about this update is that if you have Access 2007, the new templates show up in Getting Started as long as you have an Internet connection and don't use the Local Templates category.Check out the screens below, or browse the on Office Online. New Templates Call Tracker Inventory Personal Contact Manager Time and Billing Time Card In the Box Templates • Assets • Contacts • Events • Faculty • Issues • Marketing Projects • Projects • Sales Pipeline • Students • Tasks Updates to Beta 2 templates • Business Account Ledger • Customer Service • Home Inventory • Lending Library • Personal Account Ledger. Jan 02, 2018 Microsoft has a template available here. Can My Book Collection be sorted alphabetically by TITLE? Access Book Collection Database Question. Download Book Microsoft Access Templates and Access Database Examples. Compatible with Microsoft Access 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016 Office Software for Small Business Company, Non Profit Organization, or Personal Use. Nav pane costomizations are stored in a system table. ADPs don’t have system tables–unfortunately, it is by design. We fix crashing bugs on a regular basis based on the number of hits coming into the bucket. Sounds like this issue hasn’t hit very high in the bucket. Feel free to email me the repro steps and I can have a tester look at it. I know we test relationship diagrams against SQL Server on a regular basis so there likely is an outside case that is gone wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() AL – did you want me to have our support person open a case for you on ADP perf? I’m still waiting for you to send me email. ![]() Applies To: Access 2007 The Books database template lets you create a database to track books that you have read, your reviews of those books, and books that you want to buy. The database connects to the Amazon.com Web site to obtain information about books. In addition, it lets you buy books through Amazon.com and also lets you summarize your book list and reading trends. For each book that you buy by using the Books database, Amazon.com donates up to 10% of the proceeds to Unitus, to benefit the lives of third-world entrepreneurs through microfinance. What do you want to do? Add a book to your book list The first step in building your book list is to add books. • On the My Books form, click New Book. • On the Book Details form, search for the book by doing one of the following: Search for a book by title • In the Title box, type as much of the title as you know, and then press ENTER. The Books database displays a drop-down list that contains the ten best matches on Amazon.com for the words that you entered. • If the book that you want appears in the list, click its title. The Books database adds the book to your list and displays its details from Amazon.com. • If the book you want does not appear in the list, revise your search terms, and then press ENTER. Search for a book by ISBN • In the ISBN box, type the ISBN of the book, and then press ENTER. You must type the complete ISBN, for example,. If the search is successful, the Books database adds that book to your list and displays its details from Amazon.com. • Edit the details of the book, as appropriate, including condition, format, and acquired date. To add a review of the book, click the My Review tab, and then type in the fields provided. For more information about writing a review, see the section. View and print book information The My Books form displays your book list as a list. For each book, the list displays the title, author, condition, status, and your rating. For each book, you can do the following: • Print a detail report Click Print Details, right-click the detail report that appears, and then click Print. • View book details To open the Book Details form, click the title of the book. • Read reviews from Amazon.com To read the latest reviews that were submitted to Amazon.com, click Read the latest reviews. Delete a book This procedure deletes all the information about the book, including your review and rating. In addition, the book will no longer appear in the Library Summary report. • On the My Books form, click the title of the book that you want to delete. • On the Book Details form, click Delete Book. Access deletes the book from your book list. Change the status of a book The Books database lets you assign a current status to each book. By default, when you first add a book to your book list, the status is set to 'Purchased'. • On the My Books form, click the title of the book that you want to change. • In the Status list on the Book Details form, select the appropriate status. Table of Status options Status Description Wish List I do not own this book, but I would like to. This status setting does not affect any Wish Lists that you have on the Amazon.com Web site. Purchased I own this book. On Loan I have loaned this book to someone. Sold I sold this book, but I still want to keep it in my book list. Lost I lost this book, but I still want to keep it in my book list. Record who a book is loaned to If you set the status of a book to On Loan, an additional list, called Loaned To, appears. You can specify who you have loaned the book to by selecting their name from the list. Use the following procedure to modify the list of names in the Loaned To list: • Click Edit List Items next to the Loaned To list. • In the Edit List Items dialog box, type each name on a separate line. When you close the Book Details form after editing the list of names, Access asks you if you want to save changes to the design of the form. Make sure to click Yes so that your list of names is saved. Rate a book The Books database lets you rate each book in your book list on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. You can rate a book on the My Books form, or on the My Review tab in the Book Details form (available by clicking a book's title on the My Books form). • Click the star that corresponds to the rating that you want to give to the book. The rating that you set in the Books database does not affect any book ratings that you have submitted to the Amazon.com Web site. Write a review of a book To help you remember what you thought about a book, you can write a review for each book in your book list. The reviews that you write in the Books database are stored on your computer, and are not submitted to Amazon.com. To write a review that will appear on the Amazon.com Web site, you must enter the review on that site. • On the My Books form, click the title of the book that you want to review. • On the Book Details form, click the My Review tab. • In the Summary box, type a short summary of the review. • In the I read this book on box, type the date that you read the book. • In the text box below the Summary box, type your review. To view all your reviews on one page, on the My Books form, click My Reviews. View Amazon reviews of a book You can use the Books database to read reviews that other readers have submitted to Amazon.com. Use one of the following procedures, depending on which form is currently displayed: • If the My Books form is currently displayed, click Read the latest reviews under the title of the book for which you want to read reviews. • If the Book Details form is currently displayed, click the Amazon Reviews tab. To view the reviews on a larger page, click Read Full Reviews. View your library summary The Library Summary report lets you view information about your books and reading trends, including which books you have read recently, how many pages you have read each month, how many books of each genre you own, and which books you want to buy. • On the My Books form, click Library Summary. • To print the report, press CTRL+P. Customize the Books database You can use the Books database as it is, or if you want, you can modify it to better suit your needs. You can add new objects such as tables, forms or reports, or customize existing objects to add new functionality. Many of the Access features that you must have in order to customize the Books database are hidden by the startup option settings of the database. In order to gain access to these features, you must close the database, and then reopen it while bypassing the startup options. To bypass startup options, do the following: • Hold down the SHIFT key while opening your database. Depending on the macro security settings for your database, you might see one or more security messages on startup. Hold down the SHIFT key until you close the security messages, or the startup options will not be bypassed. You use the Navigation Pane to organize and open the database objects. If the Navigation Pane is not displayed when you open the database, press F11 to display it. Find links to more information about how to modify a database in the See Also section. Database (Microsoft Access) MDB is a database file used by Microsoft Access. Though Access is tied into the Microsoft Office, MDB is Access’s own format, which is based on the Access Jet Database Engine. Access can also import or link to data from other applications, such as, SharePoint lists, text,, Outlook, and. MDB can be opened by OpenOffice.org, SAS Institute SAS, Wolfram Mathematica, Softpedia MDB Converter¸ and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. To be read by other applications, files can be converted to.TXT. Formats using a MDB Converter. Application/msaccess, application/x-msaccess, application/vnd.msaccess, application/vnd.ms-access, application/mdb, application/x-mdb, zz-application/zz-winassoc-mdb Learn more about.MDB files: Learn how to create.MDB files for Access databases on. Search for answers to.MDB-related questions on. ![]() ![]() ![]() How to Make an Inventory Database in Access. Microsoft (MS) Access offers a versatile way to create inventory assessment tools by building a database that will reveal. CAMWorks Report Database.pdf. ReportDatabase.mdb is a Microsoft Access. Z You should be familiar with Microsoft Access and SQL. If a supplied report template. Microsoft Access. View / Submit Screenshot. Microsoft Office Access 2007. Database application: Part of Microsoft Office 2007. Internal Version: 12.0. Application Details:. ![]() Microsoft makes it easy for users of their Office suite to create all sorts of documents and cards by providing a myriad of pre-designed themed templates. You don’t need any design skills, talent or experience to make beautiful business cards, flyers, invitations or thank you notes for miscellaneous occasions. Creating captivating thank you notes in MS Word 2010 is as easy and quick as creating any other Word document. Here’s how to do it: 1) Open a new MS Word 2010 document. 2) Click on the File ribbon and then select New. Once you do that, the Word will present you with a plethora of MS Office templates. 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One such fully free program is a, which you can download, install and use for printing not only Word, but more than 300 other file formats to PDF as well. Sending an email may be the fastest way to follow-up after a meeting, interview or sales pitch, but it is not necessarily the most long-lasting. Consider creating custom correspondence in Microsoft Word, where you can design corporate note cards – no pricey graphic designers required. With Word's note card templates, half. Index cards (3'x5' and 4'x6'). Use this template to create your own 3x5 or 4x6 index cards. This blank template includes three 3x5 or two 4x6 index cards per tab that will print on Avery cards 5388, 5389, 5889, 8386. Index cards (3'x5' and 4'x6'). Frequently there is disagreement about whether an offer of money is to be a loan or a gift. This type of transaction even leads to lawsuits as, over time, the two parties disagree about the intention of the loan or gift. 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It is equally important to understand your requirements than finding a right template. If you get a right template but still your requirements are not meeting then it is obvious that you are far away from your original requirements. So, if you are not yet clear about your requirements, then leave this page and make a clear understanding of your requirements. You can further categorize your priorities according to need. This will help you in identifying the exact template that can meet your expectations. Here, I would like to add one more sentence, you cannot find perfect template for your requirements. A very few changes in its title or image or text or in all can make your section ideal. Before you download this template, please review our. ![]() Templates are very convenient and save a lot of time, all you have to do is enter the new information in the template and you are done. The best part is, Microsoft Word already offers hundreds of templates, which you can freely use whenever you like. There is a template for almost everything, in most cases, you will not even have to create your own template. In this Tutorial, we are going to show you how to use a Word template and edit it. Note: This tutorial is Written using Microsoft Word 2007, the instructions apply to other versions of Microsoft Word as well. Although, there might be some changes in how the information is presented, but it will be similar and easy to understand. Use a Microsoft Word Template Open Microsoft Word and click on “Office button” located at the top right corner of the Window. From the menu, click on “New” and you will see another window with all the templates. If for some reason, you don’t have any templates handy,. Note: To use Microsoft Office Online templates you need to have access to the internet. The template which you would like to use will be downloaded and installed in Microsoft Word. Under the heading “Microsoft Office Online” you will see all the categories, most probably, you will see the category for your required template as well. Before you begin a project using Word 2007, you can create a new template for it. Your template may only be a guess as to what styles you’ll want, but it’s enough. How to Create a Template in Microsoft Word 2007. Microsoft Word allows you to create documents of many different types with a great deal of customization. Just click on the required category and after a short delay (Uses internet to search) you will see all the templates under that category. To Preview a template, just click on it and you will see a preview in the right panel. If you like any of the templates, click on the “Download” button located at the bottom right corner of the window. The template will be downloaded and applied on a separate Word document, which you can edit freely. The edits made to the new document will not affect the original template. The original template will be downloaded in your PC and you can access it any time you like (without downloading again). Below is an Example of an edited Template: Note: The template will open up in a separate Word document which can then be edited. You cannot apply a template to already written text, unlike PowerPoint. You will have to edited later or copy/paste the text in the template. Access the Template Again To access the same template again, click on “Office button” and from the menu click on “New”. From the next window, click on “My Templates” and you will see all your downloaded templates in the next window. Click on the template which you would like to use and under Preview window, make sure “Create New” is set to “Document”. ![]() Now, click on “OK” and the template will open in a word document. If you will select “Template” instead of “Document”, you will actually create a new template using the same template. The new “edited” template will be saved in “My Templates” as well, and the original template will not be affected. This can be handy if you want to edit something in the template for future use. If you have any questions or would like to share any tips on using templates in Word, let us know in the comments below. Read more about. Templates in Microsoft Word - one of the Tutorials in the Intermediate Users Guide to Microsoft Word Templates in Microsoft Word by Charles Kyle Kenyon, Esq. You will find an earlier version of this chapter on the. Users of Word 2007-2016/365 (Ribbon versions) may want to look at this. Last updated Thursday 04 January 2018. Comments are welcome. A Word document version of this chapter (seldom updated) is available. Templates are a special type of Word document that can hold text, styles, macros, keyboard shortcuts, custom toolbars, and Ribbon modifications, and including AutoText entries. A document created using a template will have access to all of these features and a large part of your job in creating a new document will be done for you if your templates are well thought out. You don't need to use all (or even any) of these features for templates to help you and those with whom you work. This is an intermediate to advanced-level tutorial and it is recommended that you not try anything in here until after you have reviewed the contents of at least the chapters You don't have to understand everything in those chapters to build a useful template, but it will help for you to at least have skimmed through so that you will know some of the pitfalls and advantages of different methods. I also recommend going through all of Shauna Kelly's. While this was originally written for Word 97-2003, the content is valid for understanding use of templates in later versions as well. What You Will Learn After completing this lesson, you will be able to: Distinguish between a 'template' and an ordinary document. Distinguish between a document template and a global template. Save a document as a template. To your document. Understand when you attach a different template. Understand what can happen if there are in different locations on the computer.. Find the location of templates your Word installation uses:. Get the classic new templates dialog in Set up and use. Create a (your own Add-In). On a network. Learn more about Word's special. Copy macros, styles, and autotext entries from one template (or document) to another. Copy from one template to another. Understand that there is a definite among the templates for customizations defined in more than one template. Use VBA () to automate your work. Additional Written and Web Resources by John C. Hill - a class handout at University of Virgina - a basic starting place - introduction to templates - Suzanne S. Barnhill, MVP - Suzanne S. Barnhill, MVP (an earlier version of the above) - John McGhie, MVP (must reading) Word for Law Firms by (also at ) (also at ) (also at ) in Word format. By John McGhie, MVP by John McGhie, MVP, Beth Rosengard, MVP, and Daiya Mitchell, MVP. By Dave Rado, MVP by Charles Kenyon - extensive tutorial by MVP Daiya Mitchell with overview of, Templates and and the interactions among these tool/features. Not just for those who want to write books! By Bill Coan, MVP by Graham Mayor, MVP by Beth Melton, MVP - includes organizing your global templates Shauna Kelly by Shauna Kelly by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP How to or the Normal Template in Microsoft Word - MSDN - Microsoft Tutorial Video - Microsoft Tutorial Video by Paul Edstein and Charles Kenyon by Herb Tyson, MVP (all templates) - All in zip format. - Summary cover sheet with five time sheets. Extensive use of tables, cross-references, calculated fields. (based on printed form - wild layout of fields using tables, some use of bookmarks, use of exit macros to control tab order. Public Defender (based on online form prepared by Wisconsin Public Defenders' Office). (Template) (Template) () ------- () Note about the Ribbon Versions of Word (2007 - Almost all of this chapter applies to these later versions of Word. The filename extensions are different in that they will be '.dotx' and '.dotm.' File locations for templates with later versions of Windows and Word are more confused,. A template remains a special kind of Word document that will create a new document when you double-click on it from Windows rather than opening. These later versions of Word do not have toolbars except through Add-Ins or the QAT. See for more information on the Ribbon interface. Templates - User Templates, Workgroup Templates & Global Templates 'Template' is a term of Word jargon. In general, in English 'template' means a form or stencil. In Word are a separate matter; they can be contained in Word templates, but are not the 'templates' we are talking about. Generally, in Word when someone talks about a template, the subject is a. The templates covered in this chapter are a special type of Word document. They can hold components for other documents, especially text, Autotext, Macros & Toolbars/Ribbon/QAT Modifications. They also hold style definitions. Finally, they hold additional modifications to your user interface such as keyboard shortcuts and changes to the built-in menus and toolbars. 'I guess we should recognise that according to Microsoft's research, “normal” users do not use or even know about templates. When Word comes out of the box, it is set up to cater for users who do not understand word processing.' John McGhie, How to Create a Template, Part 2 When you save a document as a template Word will attach the extension of '.dot' to the end of the name instead of '.doc' but it is not the extension that makes it a template. Merely changing the name either way will not change a document into a template or a template into a document (although doing so will confuse you and other users). Although Windows will think that such a misnamed file is a document, or template, depending on the extension, Word knows the difference. You can make a document into a template from within Word using Save As under the File menu. With Word versions prior to Word 2002, you can't directly change a template into a document. You can create a new document based upon a template and save that document... As a document. (In Word 2002+ when you use 'Save As' to save a template as a document, Word will strip out all AutoText/Building Blocks and will warn you that this will happen before completing the save.) In Word 2007 and later the filename extensions are different: docx/docm for documents and dotx/dotm for templates. Although this chapter is titled 'Template Basics' it does not tell you how to create a useful document template. For me to attempt to do that would be pointless. Anything that I would say to you can be found in by John McGhie. I urge you to read that work, now. This chapter, though, does tell you things about templates that are not covered in that work. If you are creating a document template, I urge you to pay close attention to styles. In constructing or editing a template: 'Always change formatting with Format>Style. I may sometimes forget to say so, in which case please remember it for me![R]emember: for most users, the only thing they can ever access in a template is the styles. If the settings are not in the styles, they’re pointless.' John McGhie, How to Create a Template, Part 2 I would go further and say template formatting done directly (outside of styles) is wicked or cruel. It will confuse the user of your template and make life more difficult for him or her. If you are the user of your template, I guess foolish and self-defeating would be a better description than wicked or cruel. None of these adjectives are ones that I use often or lightly. I think they are appropriate in this situation. Word 2010 makes use of styles even easier and more important. See - part of Lynda.com Video tutorials on Word and NOTE about things from yourself. Both Word and Windows like to hide things from you feeling that too much information tends to confuse. You may agree with this philosophy or not. However, this chapter is written expecting that you can see some of this hidden information. Specifically: Filename Extensions (Mac users don't need to worry about this.) If you are in an Explorer window that has Word documents in it, do the names show the three-letter extension '.doc?' If not, to see these you need to go to the menu: View => Folder Options => Views (tab). (Later versions:.docx/.docm.) Uncheck the selection that says something like 'Hide filename extensions for known file types' and click on OK or CLOSE. For more see this. Paragraph marks and section marks These non-printing characters are at the heart of word formatting. If you can't see them, your formatting will be very hard to figure out. This is one part of the Word equivalent to Word Perfect's 'reveal codes.' The default is to not show these characters because the marketing people at Microsoft thought it would scare you to have any clue as to what was going on in your document. (my guess) When you are working on formatting a document you need to see them. The Show/Hide toolbar button (Standard Toolbar, between Document Map button and Zoom drop-down) for this has a paragraph mark (pillcrow) on it. You can also set this under Tools => Options => View (tab). You can change these back later. Most advanced computer users leave these displayed to save time because not seeing these confuses them. Creating a document from a document template - the template. In Word 97-2000, when you select New under the File menu, you are shown templates from which you can choose. There are also Tabs of more available selections. (And if there isn't room for all of the tabs, there will be one that simply says 'More' and gives you access to the others.) When you pick a template and create a new document based on that template, the template remains 'attached' to the document. (In Word 2002-2003 you need to choose 'On my computer' to see this dialog. In Word 2007 it is under the Office Button. New > My Templates. In Word 2010 and 2013 it is under the File Tab. New > My Templates. See for more on this.) Any text that is in the template will be the start of your new document. All in the template used in the document (whether in the template's text or in text that you type or insert) become defined in the document and will stay with the document even if the attachment is later broken. If the template's style definition is changed after it is used in the document, the style as used in an existing document will not change unless the template is reattached or the style is otherwise copied into the document again. (See below for more on attaching a template to an existing document.) Autotext/Building Blocks entries, Macros, Keyboard customizations and Toolbars/QAT Modifications in the template are available to the document so long as the document remains attached to the template, but are not normally transferred into the document. (Documents cannot hold Autotext/Building Blocks entries but can hold macros, keyboard shortcuts, and toolbars/QAT Modifications.) If you use XML to in later versions of Word, those modifications can be stored in either documents or templates. Rant about creating Templates from (flawed) documents If you are going to share your templates with others, or simply plan on using them to make a number of documents try to plan and structure them with care. Avoid making a template from any documents converted from a different word processing program or even a much earlier version of Word. Because there is no way to translate feature-for-feature a complex document structure from one program to another, these conversions are prone to document corruption. In Word, even documents created in the current version of Word can cause problems if they have automatically numbered paragraphs. The basic idea of templates is to give you or someone else a boost in creating a new document. If your template is full of errors, those errors will replicate themselves ad infinitum! That isn't something that you need. It isn't an example that you want to set. If what you really want to share is text, try sharing it as an entry. To clean up text from a converted document, save it in RTF (or even text) format, reopen that and save it again as a document file. Copy that text into a new document based on a solid template. Save that new document as your template. Then apply appropriate styles to all of the text in your document. See for more on use of styles in templates. Template If you move the document to a different computer that doesn't have the template, the attachment will be broken. If you move the template into a different directory on your computer, the attachment will probably be broken. If your template is on your server and you give the server a different name, the attachment will be broken. You can change the template attached to a document using Tools => Templates and Add-Ins. Attaching a different template to any AutoText, macros, toolbars and keyboard customizations in the newly-attached template. It does not give you any text from the newly-attached template. It gives you access to styles in the newly-attached template but unless you check the box 'update styles' when you change the attached template, any styles already in use in your document will not be changed by attaching a new template. You will also not get any document layout such as margins (although indents contained in styles will be imported if the style is imported. If you want the layout features or text from the new template for your document, your best bet is to create a new document based on the new template and then copy the contents of your old document into the new document. Then close the old document and save your new document using the same name. Note that your new document will use style definitions from the template rather than from your old document. In Word 2007-2013 you can reach the dialog for this on. Then click on the Document Template button. To a document if there are different templates with the same name in different locations? Word 2003-2013 If you create a document from a template, that is the attached template for that document, unless there is a different template with the same name on the computer in one of three places: • The same folder as the document. If there is a template with the same name as the attached template in the folder containing the document, Word 2003-2013 will attach to that template the next time the document is opened. • The User Templates folder. (Word will not attach a template of the same name if there is also one in the same folder as the document.) • The Workgroup Templates folder. (Word will not attach a template of the same name if there is also one in the User Templates folder or the folder containing the document.) That is, it completely ignores the existing attached template and attaches to a closer template. This cannot be reset using the Document Template or Templates and Add-Ins dialog. Note that when you have a template of the same name in the same folder as the document, Word will not attach to a template with the same name in a different folder. Templates that are in subfolders of the User Templates Folder or the Workgroup Templates folder do not have this feature of mandatory attachment. For that matter, neither do templates in a subfolder of the folder containing the document. I have not tested this in Word 97-2002. In Word 2013, note that the Custom Office Templates folder or folder designated as the default save location for templates is not in this hierarchy! Folder A user's document templates are usually stored in a folder (usually on the user's computer) and normally called 'Templates.' The normal.dotm (or normal.dot) file will always be located in this folder. The default location of this folder differs among the various versions of Word. Both the location and the name can be changed by the user. If you ask Word to save a document as a template, in Word 97-2003 this is the folder you will be taken to for that purpose. You can see (and change) the location by using: Tools => Options => File Locations (tab) In this window, the folder is designated as the 'User Templates Folder.' Otherwise, see. In Word 2007 and 2010 the of the User Templates folder is 'C: Users [your username] Appdata Roaming Microsoft Templates' This is still probably the best place to store any template unless you have a reason to put it somewhere else. When a template is in the user templates folder, it will be available under File -> New to create a new document based on the template. In the File Save and File Open dialogs this will show up as 'Templates' in the Favorites on the right. In the default location of the for new templates is a subfolder of the user's documents folder named ' Custom Office Templates.' This folder location can be changed under File -> Options -> Save. If you are going to be using the Classic FileNew dialog, you probably want to change it to be the same location as your user templates folder. The default location of the User Templates Folder remains C: Users user name AppData Roaming Microsoft Templates. The User Templates folder will still contain the Normal.dotm template. The location of that folder can be modified (or discovered) using File -> Options -> Advanced -> File Locations. See on the Word Answers site for more about the distinction between these two locations in Word 2013 for templates. It is my recommendation that users make both of these locations (User Templates and Default Custom Templates) the same folder to avoid confusion. You can save templates any place you want to, but if you want them to show up in the File => New dialog box they must be in either the User Templates Folder or the. Here are some of files that could go in a user templates folder or one of its sub-folders: These templates could, instead, go in the. Templates Folder Every Word installation will have a User Templates folder upon installing the software. That is always the location of the normal template. The Workgroup Templates Folder is a second top-level folder used to store document templates. (As with the 'User Templates Folder', 'Workgroup Templates Folder' is a description, not a necessarily a name.) Unlike the User Templates Folder, there is no default name or location for the Workgroup Templates Folder. In addition, there is no folder upon installation, you need to create one. I call mine 'Shared Templates' and it is kept on the server in a folder that is mapped as the 'G: ' drive by the network. (And at home I use the assign command to map a folder in the same way so that I can transfer work back and forth.) This is set up the same way as the Templates folder except that the folder is in a location accessible to all users (perhaps as read-only). Like the Templates folder, folders established in the Workgroup Templates folder will show up as Tabs when you use the File => New command (Word 2000 requires at least one template in the folder for it to show up). Once you have created a Workgroup Templates folder, you need to modify the settings for each user in Word. See for how to set or modify this in the different versions of Word. This should be a different folder than the User Templates folder even if on the same computer. For an example of templates designed for placement in Workgroup Folders look at any of the listed under additional materials. If it is on the same computer as the User Templates folder, it should be in the folder that holds the Templates folder, not in the Templates folder. This folder is normally named 'Microsoft Office.' It's location will vary by version of Word as well as Operating System. See the bottom of for the variations. The User Templates and Workgroup Templates folders (and their subfolders) are the usual location for document templates. Note that these locations are set initially by the Office Setup program (possibly using network administration policies). If there are form documents used throughout an office, department, household, or business, they are best stored as Workgroup Templates. Generally the workgroup templates are prepackaged templates for use by more than one user, often company-wide. They can be used by an individual to distinguish work templates from personal templates or finished templates from development templates. You can change the location of your user and/or workgroup templates folders but doing so changes it for all Office programs, not just Word. Custom Office Templates Folder (Word 2013/365 and later?) Office 2013/365 comes with one other standard template location. By default, this a separate folder is in the users Document Folder. That is set in the Save Options and is the place where newly created templates will be saved by default. (In earlier versions, new templates were saved in the User Templates folder by default; this stopped with Word 2007.) This is the folder that shows up on the Document > New screen (and Start screen) in Word 2013 as Personal or as a Folder under Custom. There is one kind of template, though, that should not be in any of these special templates folders, the global template. Templates - very different from document templates Global templates are one type of 'Add-In' for Word. Global templates are different from document templates, so different in function that giving both the name template causes endless confusion. They are normally not 'attached' to any document and normally do not contribute text or styles to any document. They are excellent vehicles for holding and sharing Autotext, Macros, Keyboard Shortcuts, and Toolbars. In Ribbon versions of Word, they also can hold Building Blocks and QAT and Ribbon modifications. You can make any template global with: Tools => Templates and Add-Ins. => Add (button) In Ribbon versions of Word you click the Document Template button on the A file open dialog box will open showing the User Templates folder's contents to choose from. You can, though, add a template that is located elsewhere. Since they don't contribute text and are not used to start new documents, global templates are probably best kept elsewhere (and not in the Workgroup Templates folder either). If you add a template as an Add-In this way, it will remain global until you restart Word. At that time, you could add it again, if you wanted to do so. Or, you could make it load automatically on startup by putting the template or a shortcut to the template in the Word. This is not the Startup programs folder in your Start menu, but rather one specifically for Word. You can find (or change) its name and location. See Note, Word uses templates (.dot,.dotx and.dotm files) not documents (.doc,.docx or.docm files) as Add-Ins when placed in the Startup Folder. Word will not use ordinary documents, with or without macros, as automatically loaded Add-Ins. A Global Template on a Network If a global template is to be shared over a network, it should be placed in a folder on the network server to which all users have file read access. Each user's network login file should be set to copy the file to the user's personal startup folder when the user logs onto the network if the network version is newer than the user's version. That way you can update the template without everyone having to be off from Word when you do it. (The personal startup folder can be on a network drive or a local drive; my preference is to use a local drive so that users have access to it even when offline.) If you can't work with the login scripts or aren't worried about updating the template you will probably want to use shortcuts (Mac: aliases) to it in each user's Word Startup folder. That way, any changes will automatically update everyone's Word. If it is your own and not shared you can either put it in your Startup folder or keep it elsewhere and use the shortcut to load it into Word. Note that since Word 2000, Word has recognized two startup folders to hold global templates. The first is the folder designated as the Word startup folder under Tools => Options => File Locations (tab) In Ribbon versions of Word you find Word Options (Under the Pizza button in Word 2007, File in Word 2010-2013) (Word) Options => Advanced => File Locations (button) The second is the Office Startup folder. Its location will vary depending on both the Operating System and the version of Word (Office) being used. I believe that the Word Startup folder can be different for each user in later versions of Windows but that the Office startup folder will always be in the Programs folder rather than in the user profile. Beginning with Word 2007, Add-Ins that only share AutoText (no macros or QAT modifications) can also be placed in the Building Blocks folder. See for information on the location of that folder. Examples of global templates can be found in the, the and the. Information on moving / copying customizations to a global template can be found in. Templates are one type of global Add-In, another is the.com file (since Word 2000). Those not Word files and are beyond the scope of this article. In the versions of Word that use both, you can find out which ones are installed and them. You can download some free Add-In templates from: - samples of files that work as Add-Ins - changes Alt+Shift+D keyboard shortcut from to CREATEDATE field in Ribbon Versions of Word Building Blocks Add-Ins Word 2007 introduced a new kind of Add-In, one to hold only Building Blocks including AutoText. These.dot or.dotx templates can be stored in either of the Startup folders mentioned. They can also be stored in a Building Blocks folder. If stored in a Building Blocks folder, the template will only share Building Blocks. A.dot template can store only AutoText, not other kinds of Building Blocks. Temporary Global Templates You can use a global template which is not loaded at startup, as well. Such a template can share resources which are not used or needed in most of your documents but are used by multiple templates and their documents. To do this, you would include a VBA command in the AutoOpen and AutoNew macros of the templates that need those resources. These would load your global as an Add-In for that session of Word only. This way, when one of the documents needing your template's resources is created or opened, the resources will be available. Word will also (in some versions, at least) load a document as well as a template as an Add-In using this method. Documents, however, will not be loaded automatically even if placed in the Startup Folder. A good place to store such a global template might be in a folder in your Word Startup folder named 'Temp.' That way it would not load at startup, would be easy to find, and would not show up in your File => New. See also: by Beth Melton, MVP and by Greg Maxey, MVP - includes organizing your global templates. Note: Building Blocks templates stored in the Building Blocks folder will not show up in any list of Add-Ins created by Word, unlike those stored in one of the Startup Folders. Sample Global Templates This is a work in progress that I put together in response to a question on one of the Microsoft newsgroups. It is a complete system for self-updating letter forms. The idea is to have letterhead components stored in one location and have letter forms reference that location when used so that form letters will have the latest letterhead information. (Global Template) (Global template) - add clickable checkboxes to non-Form documents - add random text to a document or template (Quick Brown Fox, Microsoft Help Text, or Lorem Ipsum) Fixes page numbering problems in complex documents - Simplifies insertion of QR Barcode in Word 2013 or later Other.dotm - the pan-global template - the granddaddy of all document templates Normal.dotm (Normal.dot in Word versions previous to Word 2007) is a special global document template created and used by Word. It is a global template, and it is often used as a document template. Unlike other global templates, Normal.dotm / normal.dot must be in the User Templates folder. Unlike other global templates, it should not be shared. See - from Microsoft. Also unlike other global templates, it shares styles with all open documents (including other templates). When you click on the new document button or go to File => New and select 'Blank Document' what you get is a document based on the Normal.dotm template. (It is possible to change this and have the default new document be based on something else. See for ideas on how this can be done.) The Normal template is the repository for many user customizations. Generally when you have the option of saving a customization like a change to a built-in Style, a new Style, a macro, or a keyboard shortcut to 'all documents' or 'all documents based on this template,' the place you are saving to is the Normal template. Alterations to the Quick Access Toolbar or Ribbon in later versions of Word made from within Word are saved in separate files. Unformatted changes to AutoCorrect are also saved in separate files. For more on where customizations are stored see. The Normal template is usually considered at least as personal as the locked bottom drawer of someone's desk. People will be offended if you mess with their Normal.dot. If Word is unable to find the Normal.dotm file when started, it will create one, using its defaults, as soon as you change a default. If you do not change any defaults in a clean installation of Word, there will be no normal template. The installation default for the location of Normal.dotm is the user templates folder. (In some language editions, Normal.dotm will have a slightly different name. Also, at least one virus renames Normal.dot.) Except in unusual circumstances (multiple users on one computer or multiple versions of Word) there should only be one copy of Normal.dotm / Normal.dot (named Normal.dot) on a computer. Note that when an earlier version is upgraded to Word 2007 or above there may be both a Normal.dot and a Normal.dotm in the user templates folder. This is quite acceptable, but Word 2007 and later do not use the normal.dot file as the basis for new documents. Word does not automatically create a file named Normal.dotx, any such file was created by the user or by other software. One of the most used methods of diagnosing or curing problems in Word is to rename the normal template. See by Charles Kenyon See also (Microsoft Knowledge Base) In one of the Word I was challenged over my statement that 'Only Word can create a normal template.' It may be, in the ribbon versions of Word, that it is possible to create a functional normal.dotm template from a saved document. I do not know. I do not think it is wise even if you can. Word creates a normal template from the program itself when none is present. It saves this when the program is closed if anything has been done to change the defaults stored in the normal template. When created, in all versions of Word the normal template will contain: Page Layout including: Margins Styles Fonts and Colors of text Page orientation This is true of any template. It is just that new documents are based on the normal template by default. It is good practice to have separate templates for different layouts. Formatted AutoCorrect There are some formatted AutoCorrect entries stored in every new normal template. The exact entries depend on the version of Word. If someone wanted these in a template based on a document and saved as the normal template, they could be recreated in that template. AutoText AutoText is stored in the normal template, by default. It can be stored in any template. I believe that the default storage location in Word 2007 is the file Building Blocks.dotx. The screenshot below shows some of the AutoText build into Word 1997-2003's normal.dot file: The Header/Footer entries are also available in the Header/Footer toolbar. There does not appear to be any AutoText distributed with Ribbon versions of Word. The built-in entries have been transferred to other building blocks. See and In Word 2010 AutoText stored in the Normal template can use the AutoComplete function that was available in earlier (menu-based) versions of Word. In Word 2013 and later, the AutoComplete function works with AutoText stored in any location. Building Blocks Any kind of Building Block can be stored in a template (and only in a template). The default template for storage of Building Blocks other than AutoText is the file Building Blocks.dotx. Other templates may be better suited for this. The Normal template is generally not a good storage location. See for more. Keyboard Shortcuts As with other templates, keyboard shortcuts can be stored in the normal template. As with other global templates, shortcuts stored in the normal template are available in all documents and templates, whether created based on the template or not. The default keyboard shortcuts are not stored in the normal template. They are in the program itself. It is modifications to those shortcuts that are stored in templates including the normal template. This is true at least back to Word 97. Macros As with other templates, macros can be stored in the normal template. As with other global templates, macros stored in the normal template are available in all documents and templates, whether created based on the template or not. Toolbars and Menus(Word 97-2003) (Ribbon Versions) QAT and Ribbon As with other templates, custom toolbars and menus can be stored in the normal template. As with other global templates, these customizations are available to all documents and templates, whether or not based on the normal template. In Ribbon versions, a representation of toolbar and menu modifications show up under the Add-Ins Tab. In Ribbon versions QAT modifications can be stored in the normal template. They probably should be stored there when they are using macros stored there. Likewise, Ribbon modifications can be stored there, with extra and unnecessary effort. The normal template is not the best place to create or store QAT and Ribbon modifications. As an experiment, in Word 2010 I had Word create a fresh normal.dotm and compared that file with a normal.dotm that I had created by saving a document as a macro-enabled template that I then named normal.dotm and placed it in the user templates folder. The normal.dotm created by Word was 23K in size; that from the document was 13K in size. When the XML structure was examined, the one created by Word had extra components, especially a glossary folder. That folder contains information about, among other things, the display of styles and the Quick Style Sets. In conclusion, as far as I know, in the ribbon versions of Word, you lose the Formatted AutoCorrect entries that come with a normal.dotm file created by Word. You do lose more, but I am unsure of what that more is. There is no reason I know of to try to create your own normal template. Instead, I advise modifying the template created by Word. Note that there is yet a fourth kind of template - not covered in this chapter - is the numbering list template. For some unfathomable reason Microsoft chose to use the term 'template' for its numbering lists as well. These are registry entries and not separate files, unlike the templates addressed in this chapter. See the chapter for more on these and for much more. The of templates - what happens when there are resources with the same name in different active templates? So, we have the open document, the attached (document) template, global templates, and Normal.dotm/Normal.dot. All of these can store various customizations. What happens if there are conflicts (two Autotext entries or macros with the same name, etc.)? They defer to each other according to rules set by Microsoft (but not very easy to discover). You don't need to know this hierarchy unless you start using the same names for macros, styles or autotext entries in multiple templates loaded simultaneously. (This is a good reason for using different names!) The order is: First, look in the document. Any macros or styles in the document will be used in preference to others if they have the same name. Any toolbar (QAT) or keyboard modifications stored in the document will trump those elsewhere. (If the document and a template both have toolbars with the same name, though, they will both be available when the document is active.) Next, check the attached template. Any macros or styles in the attached template will take priority over any except those of the same name in the document. Any styles changed in the template after the document was created will be available as changed to the document by updating styles. Any autotext entries in the attached template will be used in place of those with the same name in Normal.dot or global templates. (Documents don't hold autotext entries.) Any toolbar (QAT) or keyboard modifications stored in the attached template will trump those stored in Normal.dot or other global templates. Then check the Normal template (Normal.dotm or Normal.dot). All styles in Normal.dotm / Normal.dot are available to all documents. Those styles already in the document will not take on the attributes of styles in Normal.dot unless you update them. (Normal.dot has many more styles than are ever used in one document.) All macros and autotext in Normal.dotm / Normal.dot are available to all documents (unless preempted by an item of the same name in the attached template or the document). Normal.dot is not the place to store shared macros. Any toolbar (QAT) or keyboard modifications stored in Normal.dotm / Normal.dot are applied. In case of conflicts between Normal.dot and other globals, Normal.dot wins. Then, check other global templates and add-ins. Again, these do not contribute styles to documents but all macros, toolbars and Autotext entries are available from a global template. Styles in global templates are irrelevant to documents (unless the style is incorporated in an autotext entry). If there is a macro or autotext entry with the same name in Normal.dot, the attached template, or the document, as the name in any other [previously checked] global template, the macro or autotext entry in the global template will not be used (except for an AutoExec macro). Any toolbar (QAT) or keyboard modifications are applied unless they conflict with something higher in the hierarchy. If there are multiple global templates, they are checked in the order they appear in the Templates and Add-Ins dialog box (with the first found taking priority over those appearing lower on the list). Finally, check Word, itself. (The Word application stores its styles, autotext entries, formatted autocorrect entries and toolbar settings in Normal.dot but will recreate Normal.dot with default settings if it can't find the Normal.dot file when started.) While the Word application does not contain Macros, as such, it does contain Word commands (which show up as a category in the Word macro list). These can be intercepted by macros which have the same name as the command. (See for more on this.) See also the hierarchy of when there are multiple templates with the same name. For more on this, you may want to look at or by Bill Coan, MVP. I do not know if there is any conflict in assignment of QAT modifications in the different template levels; I believe they are simply cumulative. In addition, which is the attached template can have its own hierarchy. It is not necessarily the template used to create the document! See this for more about which template will be the 'attached template' when the document is re-opened. How to get more (user defined) when you select New under the File menu. When you go to save a template, as a template, Word 97-2003 will take you to your user templates folder. If you store the template there, it is under the General tab for new files. The other tabs that you see under File => New are usually folders in the user templates folder or the workgroup templates folder. If you want to add a tab, add a folder and store a template there. (In Word 2000 the tab wont show up if there isnt a template in the folder.) Word 97 stores the templates that come with it in these same folders. Word 2000 keeps its built-in templates elsewhere. If you want your template to show up under the tab for Letters & Faxes you need to create a folder with that title in your user Templates folder. Just File=>Save As and select template as your file type. Before you save the template, create a new folder Letters & Faxes if one isnt there, and then open that folder and store your template there. Word 2007 & 2010 When you Choose File > New in Word 2007 or 2010 you get something like the dialog windows below: To get to the classic dialog you click on 'My templates.' Want to get to your templates quickly? You can get the classic dialog by customizing the QAT (Quick Action Toolbar). You want to add the command for New Document or Template (classic FileNewDialog). See for more on this. Word 2013-2016 New Templates Dialog Word 2013 changes things up yet again, still emphasizing the Online templates. What are shown are icons from Office Online's featured templates. To get to your own templates, you need to click on 'Custom:' For more on how Word 2013-16 has this set up, see. There is no way just clicking on buttons and menus in Word 2013-16 that you can view the combined File New dialog from earlier versions because unless set to be the same folder by the user, the user templates folder (shown in the classic FileNew dialog) and the Custom Office Templates folder are different folders. You can use the Classic FileNew Dialog though by making some minor tweaks to your. You can even add a button to your. You can also download a free with these tweaks. Tabs from a Workgroup Templates Folder You can create organization folders in your workgroup templates folder as well and store your workgroup templates there. These tabs will then show up in the File => New dialog box for everyone who has set that folder as the location for workgroup templates. If you give your folders (that you create in the user or workgroup templates folders) the same name as Tabs already showing up under File => New, your templates will show up under those Tabs. You can have folders with the same names in your personal templates folder and your workgroup templates folder to take advantage of this. And the File => New dialog box. Note that the folder depth allowed for Templates folders is two levels: the Templates folder and one level of folders therein. The diagram above shows five levels. You can put subfolders in second-level folders but Word will ignore that structure and act as if you put all the templates directly in the folder at the second level. If your templates folder is structured as in the diagram when you use File => New you will see four custom tabs and five custom templates in your dialog box. If you click on the tab AA you will see no templates. Word 2000/2001?/XP? If your templates folder is structured as in the diagram, when you use File => New you will see three custom tabs and five custom templates. No tab is shown for AA because it contains no templates. Both If you click on the tab AB, you will see templates 11, 12, and 13 as options for starting your new document. If you click on the tab AD you will not see any folders. You will see the following templates: 17, 18, 21, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36. All templates that are anywhere within folder AD, including in subfolders, are displayed. Tabs that show up under File => New that are not Folders The General tab (Word 97 and thereafter) The General tab displays all templates in the User templates folder, the workgroup templates folder and one that says 'Blank Document.' You won't find a 'Blank Document.dot' if you look in any of the templates folders, this is actually Normal.dot. The tab (Word 97 and thereafter) If you have more folders in your user templates folder and in your workgroup templates folder than can fit on two rows of tabs in the File => New dialog box, the last tab on the second row will be 'More.' Clicking on this will give you all of the Folders in your templates folders. 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