Starting and Exiting PowerPoint
You can start PowerPoint just like any other program in Windows: from the Start menu. Follow these steps:
1. | Click the Start button. The Start menu opens. |
2. | Click All Programs. |
3. | Click Microsoft Office. |
4. | Click Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. The program starts. |
If you have opened PowerPoint before, a shortcut to it might appear in the Recently Used Programs list, which is directly above the All Programs command on the Start menu. If you use other applications more frequently than PowerPoint, PowerPoint may scroll off this list and you therefore have to access it via the All Programs menu.
Tip
If you don’t want to worry about PowerPoint scrolling off the list of the most frequently used programs on the Start menu, right-click PowerPoint’s name on the Start menu and choose Pin to Start Menu. PowerPoint will then appear on the list at the top of the left column of the Start menu. To remove it from there later, right-click it and choose Unpin from Start Menu.
When you are ready to leave PowerPoint, select Office Button 
Exit or click the Close (X) button in the top-right corner of the PowerPoint window. (The Office button is the round button in the top left corner.) If you have any unsaved work, PowerPoint asks if you want to save your changes. Because you have just been playing around in this chapter, you probably do not have anything to save yet. (If you do have something to save, see Chapter 21 to learn more about saving.) Otherwise, click No to decline to save your changes, and you’re outta there.