Jane's Quick Tips
Tip 6
Working in Different Views

Normal View

The Normal View that you see is divided into three panes. The Outline/Slide pane on the left is used to view the outline of our presentation or thumbnail pictures of your slides. The Slide pane in the center displays the active slide. The Notes pane on the bottom is used to add notes that can be used by a speaker during a presentation.

The pane on the right is called the Task Pane and is used to display various tools that you can use while you are creating a presentation. This pane is not one of the panes in the Normal view, but is set to display by default when PowerPoint is started.

The following figure shows the Normal View of the PowerPoint Window in Normal View with panes identified. Take a moment to identify each of these areas of the window in the figure below.

Working in Different Views

Normal View-Default View-you can add graphics to your slides as well as type, edit and format text.
-Custom Animation; Edit Objects

Slide Sorter-Displays Multiple Slides-you can perform tasks such as reordering slides and adding builds, transitions, and slide timings for electronic presentations.
-Slide Transitions; Builds

Slide Show-Displays the slides as they appear during a slide show.

Outline View-a good way to organize and develop the content of your presentation. To insert text, click where you want to add text and type.
-Spell Check; Proofread

Notes Pages View-you can create pages to print and use as a guide during your presentation.