A view is a way of displaying your presentation on-screen. PowerPoint comes with several views because at different times during the creation process, it is helpful to look at the presentation in different ways. For example, when you add a graphic to a slide, you need to work closely with that slide, but when you rearrange the slide order, you need to see the presentation as a whole.

PowerPoint offers the following views:

• Normal: A combination of several resizable panes, so you can see the presentation in multiple ways at once. Normal is the default view.
• Slide Sorter: A light-table-type overhead view of all the slides in your presentation, laid out in rows, suitable for big-picture rearranging.
• Notes Page: A view with the slide at the top of the page and a text box below it for typed notes. (You can print these notes pages to use during your speech.)
• Slide Show: The view you use to show the presentation on-screen. Each slide fills the entire screen in its turn.

There are two ways to change a view: click a button on the View tab, or click one of the view buttons in the bottom-right corner of the screen. See Figure 20-7. All of the views are available in both places except Notes Page, which you can access only from the View tab.

When you save, close, and reopen a file, PowerPoint opens the same view in which you left the file. To have the files always open in a particular view, choose Office Button?PowerPoint Options?Advanced, and open the Open All Documents Using This View list and select the desired view.

The options on this list include some custom versions of Normal view that have certain panes turned off. For example, you can open all documents in Normal – Outline and Slide view to always start with the Notes pane turned off.

FIGURE 20-7
Select a view from the View tab or from the viewing controls in the bottom-right corner of the screen.

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