Another useful feature in PowerPoint is the Quick Access toolbar or QAT, which provides easy access to frequently used commands.

The quick access toolbar is located above the ribbon next to the Microsoft Office button.

By default, it contains buttons for save, undo, and redo.

You can customize the quick access toolbar by adding or removing commands according to your preference.

To do this, click on the down arrow at the end of the toolbar and select the commands you want to add or clear the ones you want to remove from the list.

You can also choose more commands to open the PowerPoint options dialogue box where you can select from a wider range of commands and organize them in the order you want.

If you want to find something more specific rather than just the popular commands, you can click on the dropdown menu titled Choose Commands from, which allows you to choose from a wider range of tools available in the entire ribbon to add to your QAT.

Once you're into the quick access toolbar options, you can select a shortcut from the default popular commands PowerPoint provides, or click on the dropdown to explore all of the commands.

Once you've found the shortcut, simply click add.

The arrows on the right hand side can be used to rearrange the order of the shortcuts.

If you've made a mistake with one of the shortcuts, simply click on one of them and then remove, which can be found underneath Add. Another useful option here is whether you want these new QAT shortcuts to follow through into other presentations you produce, or just this one in the dropdown box that says For all Documents default.

You can change this so it just applies to this presentation, rather than being carried over into presentations being built after this one.

Once you are happy with everything, click okay. To save.

Another way to add QAT shortcuts is by right clicking on a tool in the ribbon.

In these examples, we've used a line middle and bullets. However, this extends to almost all the tools in the ribbon.

Once you've right clicked the tool, a tab will appear and you simply click add to quick access toolbar.

This will then be added to the QAT at the top of your screen, but also in the main QAT options previously shown where you can rearrange the order or remove the shortcut.

So we're quickly going to apply a tool to the quick access toolbar.

so if you want to open up a blank slide, we're going to quickly go into the customized quick access toolbar drop out at the top here.

Then we're gonna go down to more commands.

So a new panel will open.

And here in the left column we have popular commands and you can go through any of the ribbon tabs if you want to here, but we're just gonna focus on popular commands for the time being.

And what we're going to add is table as a QAT, gonna click on add table, and then add, and then you'll see that it's moved over to the right hand side.

Now you can click on this and move it up if you'd like, if you want it further to the top of the list or back down if you'd like to.

And again, as covered in the video, this is going to be applied for all documents.

So you can click down on this and it'd just be for this document only if you'd like.

So we're going to keep that as all documents and click Okay.

And so now you can see that we've got the add table, tool here to the QAT. And so we're going to click on that. And there you go.

You can instantly create a table from the QAT.

So that's one way that we've covered, and we're just going to remove that table and we're just going to show another way for you to add a QAT to your ribbon.

So let's click on this and what we're going to do is incorporate the slide master tool into the QAT.

So what you do is you right click and as simple as this add to quick access toolbar, and they have it.

It's there much simpler way to add QAT, but obviously you're skipping a couple of the settings, including whether or you want this to added to all of your presentations or just this one as well as where it sits in the priority list.