Managing Presentations
Open or Close an Existing Presentation
Working with Multiple Presentations
Using Save As for a Presentation
Save a Presentation
Changing Views
Using PowerPoint 2007
Managing Presentations: Changing Views
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When you open PowerPoint 2007 the screen displays in Normal view. To change the screen view of the presentation:
1. Click on the View Tab
2. Navigate to the Presentation Views Group
3. Select the view you want by clicking on it.
Normal view is the main editing view, where you write and design your presentation. This view has four working areas:
Outline tab This is a great place to start writing your content — to capture your ideas, plan how you want to present them, and move slides and text around. The Outline tab shows your slide text in outline form.
Slides tab This is a great place to view the slides in your presentation as thumbnail-sized images while you edit. The thumbnails make it easy for you to navigate through your presentation and to see the effects of any design changes. You can also easily rearrange, add, or delete slides here.
Slide pane In the upper-right section of the PowerPoint window, the Slide pane displays a large view of the current slide. With the current slide shown in this view, you can add text and insert tables, SmartArt graphics, charts, drawing objects, text boxes, movies, sounds, hyperlinks, and animations.
Notes pane In the Notes pane below the Slide pane, 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 hand out to your audience or include the notes in a presentation that you send to the audience or post on a Web page.
You can switch between the Slides and Outline tabs. The Slides and Outline tabs change to display symbols if the pane becomes too narrow.
Slide Sorter View
Slide Sorter view is a view of your slides in thumbnail form.
Notes Page View
You can type your notes in the Notes pane, which is located just below the Slide pane in Normal view. However, if you want to view and work with your notes in full page format, on the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Notes Page.
slide show view
Slide Show view takes up the full computer screen, like an actual presentation. In this view, you see your presentation the way your audience will. You can see how your graphics, timings, movies, effects, and transition effects will look during the actual presentation.
set a view as the default
You can specify that PowerPoint always open in a certain view.
Among the views that you can set as the default are Slide Sorter view, Slide Show view, Notes Page view, and variations on Normal view.
1. Click the Microsoft Office Button
, and then click PowerPoint Options.
2. In 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 default, and then click OK.