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Jane's Quick Tips
Tip 6
Working in Different Views

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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 displayed when you click on various tasks, such as: inserting clip art.

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

PowerPoint view with panes identified

 
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

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

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

You can change your views under the View tab, in the Presentation View group,

PowerPoint Views from the presentation group

or click on the View Options on the far right side of the Status bar.

View Option buttons identified

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