Overview of PowerPoint Views

The views in Microsoft PowerPoint can be used to edit, print, and deliver
your presentation. They are as follows:

Normal view

Slide Sorter view

Notes Page view

SlideShow view (which includes Presenter view)

Reading view

Master views: Slide, Handout, and Notes

See the sample below which shows, how you can find PowerPoint views in
two places:

On the View tab, in the Presentations Views and Master Views groups.

From above, you can see all the different type of slide view mentioned
above.

Normal View

Normal view is the main editing view, where you write and design your
presentations. The normal view has four working areas:
1.Outline tab This is a preferable place to start writing your content — to
capture your ideas, this where you can lay out your plan on how you want
to present them, and move slides and text around. The Outline tab shows
your slide text in outline form.

2. Slides tab: this where you can view the slides in your presentation as
thumbnail-sized images while you edit. From here you can navigate and
format your presentation and see the effects of any design changes. You
can also easily rearrange, add, or delete slides here.

3. Slide pane: this upper-right section of the PowerPoint window is the

Slide pane; here displays a large view of the current slide. From here, you
can add text and insert pictures, tables, SmartArt graphics, charts, drawing
objects, text boxes, movies, sounds, hyperlinks, and animations.

4. Notes pane: the Notes pane is found below the Slide pane, here you
can type notes that apply to the current slide. Later, you can print your
notes and refer to them when you give your presentation. You can also
print notes to give to your audience or include the notes in a presentation
that you send to the audience or post on a Web page.
Slide Sorter View

Slide Sorter view displays slides in thumbnail form. From here you can find
it easy to sort and organize the arrangement of your slides as you create
your presentation, and then also as you prepare your presentation for
printing.

You can add sections in Slide Sorter view as well, and sort slides into
different categories or sections.

Notes Page View

The Notes pane is located under the Slide pane. You can use here to type
notes that apply to the current slide in your presentation. You can print your
notes and refer to them when you give your presentation. You can also
print notes to give to your audience or include the notes in a presentation
that you send to the audience or post on a Web page.
Master Views

The master views include Slide, Handout, and Notes view. They are the
main slides that store information about the presentation, including
background, color, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes, and positions. The key
benefit to working in a master view is that on the slide master, notes
master, or handout master, you can make universal style changes to every
slide, notes page, or handout associated with your presentation.
Slide Show View

The Slide Show view you use to deliver your presentation to your audience.
SlideShow view occupies the full computer screen, exactly the way your
presentation will look on a big screen when your audience sees it. You can
see how your graphics, timings, movies, animated effects, and transition
effects will look during the actual presentation.
To exit Slide Show view, press ESC.

Presenter View

Presenter view is a key slideshow-based view that you can use while
delivering your presentation. By using two monitors, you can run other
programs and view speaker notes that your audience cannot see.

To use Presenter view, make sure that your computer has multiple monitor
capabilities, turn on multiple monitor support, and turn on Presenter view.

Reading View

Use the reading view to deliver your presentation not to an audience (via a
large screen, for example), but instead to someone viewing your
presentation on their own computer. Or, use Reading view on your own
computer when you want to view a presentation not in full-screen Slide
Show view, but in a window with simple controls that make the presentation
easy to review. You can always switch from Reading view to one of the
other views if you want to change the presentation.

You can always switch from Reading view to one of the other views if you
want to change the presentation.
Print Preview

Print Preview lets you specify settings for what you want to print —
handouts, notes pages, and outline, or slides.

How to Set a View as Default

When you change the default view to one that suits your work, PowerPoint
will always open in that view. Among the views that are available to set as
the default is Slide Sorter view, Outline Only view, Notes view, and
variations on Normal view.

PowerPoint opens in Normal view by default, displaying the thumbnails of

your slides, notes and slide view. If you prefer, that PowerPoint opens in a
different view, such as Slide Sorter view, Slide Show view, Notes Page
view, and variations on Normal view.

1. Click the File tab.

2. Click Options on the left side of the screen, and then on the left pane
of the PowerPoint Options dialog box, click Advanced.

3. Under Display, in the Open, all documents using this view list, select
the view that you want to set as the new default and then click OK.