Working with QAT and Ribbons: Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint

Created: Wednesday, October 24, 2018, posted by Geetesh at 12:33 pm

Updated: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 3:43 pm

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The Ribbon that you see within the PowerPoint user interface was designed to make all options easily accessible. To make more options available, you can add more tabs, rename them, and populate them with even more commands.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint 365

Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint 2019

Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint 2016

Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint 2013

Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint 365

Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint 2016

Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint

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