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The first tab within the Media Browser in PowerPoint is the Photos tab. This tab provides you quick access to visual content within your iPhoto and Photo Booth collections. The Photos tab is divided into two panes, the top pane is a scroll-equipped area which enables you to navigate your album and the lower pane displays previews of your photos.
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There are two floating palettes available in PowerPoint for Mac, the Toolbox and the Media Browser. The Media Browser is a central repository of all sorts of media content that you can insert in your slides.
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Although almost everything within the Toolbox in PowerPoint 2011 works so well, you can still customize it as you want by clicking the Customize Toolbox button located at the upper-right corner of the Toolbox.
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The Compatibility Report tab is the last tab within the Toolbox in PowerPoint. This tab helps you if the presentations you create in PowerPoint need to be shared with others who are using other versions of PowerPoint, on either the Mac or even on Microsoft Windows. Within this tab, you can check compatibility of any open presentation with other versions of PowerPoint.
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Toolbox – Compatibility Report Tab in PowerPoint 2011

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Reference Tools is the third tab in the Toolbox. This area provides quick access reference resources such as the thesaurus, dictionary, language translations, and web searches. Some of these options require that you are connected online.
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Toolbox – Reference Tools Tab in PowerPoint 2011

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