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PowerPoint 2007 Views
Works with PowerPoint 2007
by Geetesh Bajaj, April 2nd 2008
Introducing the Views
Normal View
Slide Sorter View
Notes Page View
Slide Show
Slide Master View
Handout Master View
Notes Master View
Outline View
Introducing the Views
In PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft has made sweeping changes
to the program interface -- but many of the views remain
unchanged -- or are very slightly changed. In this article, we
will explore all these view options.
PowerPoint 2007 continues to provide seven different views to help users to
create and play presentations. The Outline view is no longer accessible
through a menu option or button, but we'll explore that later in this article. For
the rest of the views, you can switch between all them with a single
click or a keyboard shortcut.
To access any of these views, you'll need to select the View tab of the Ribbon, as shown in Figure 1. Then click on any of the buttons in the Presentation Views group. Each of these views is explained in more detail later in this article.
Figure 1: View tab of the Ribbon
These seven views are:
- Normal
- Slide Sorter
- Notes Page
- Slide Show
- Slide Master
- Handout Master
- Notes Master
Other than the View tab of the Ribbon, you can also access these views using the three small buttons in the right side of the Status Bar (see Figure 2).
Figure 2 : View buttons
These three buttons allow quick access to the same views:
- The leftmost button brings up the Normal view.
- The middle button allows you to access the Slide Sorter view
- The rightmost button plays the presentation (as does the F5 key)
If you Shift-click any of these three buttons, the view options change:
- Shift-clicking the leftmost button brings up the Slide Master view
- Shift-clicking the middle button brings up the Handout Master view
- Shift-clicking the rightmost button does not bring up any view -- instead
it brings up the Set Up Show dialog box.
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Normal View
Normal View (see Figure 3 below) is the
default PowerPoint view that displays one slide at a time -- this is good
for editing individual slides. To navigate to the next slide you can use the
scrollbar, or the Next and Previous buttons located at the bottom of the
vertical
scrollbar. You can also use the Page Up and Page Key keys to navigate the slides.
Typically, Normal view includes the Slides/Outline pane on the left. By
default the Slides pane (rather than the Outline pane) is active, and you can
use this pane to select slides. The Outline pane is essentially the closest
you
will
get
to
the Outlining
view
in older PowerPoint versions -- we discuss more about this later
in this article...
Figure 3: Normal View
At the bottom of the slide area is the Notes pane that allows you to type
in notes for the active slide. Notes can also be edited and added in Notes
Page view.
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Slide Sorter View
Slide Sorter view displays thumbnail sized representations of all slides in
your presentation (see Figure 4). This works best when you
have to select multiple slides before you apply a transition or automatic timing
to the slide. This view also allows you to quickly reorder, delete, or duplicate
your slides. In addition, this view displays hidden slides.
Figure 4: Slide Sorter View
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Notes Page View
This view displays
your slide notes in a page view as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Note Page
The large box on the top half of the page is a single slide whereas the
slightly larger box in the bottom half of the page is the notes area -- this
contains the same notes that are available within the Notes pane of Normal
view (refer earlier in this page).
Remember that you can use the zoom option in the Status bar to get a better
view of any part of the Notes page.
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Slide Show
In this view (see Figure 6) you can view the slide in a fullscreen
resolution. Remember that this is purely a display view and no editing can be
done on slides at this point of time.
To access this view, you can also use the F5 key to play the presentation
from the first slide. To play the presentation from the selected/active slide,
you press Shift + F5.
This same Slide Show view is used when you connect your desktop or laptop
to a projector -- so this is a great way to check how your presentation
will look while playing
on
a
projector. Press the spacebar, or the N key to get to the next slide --
and the Backspace key or the P key to get to the previous slide. Press the
Escape key to
come
out
of this
view.
Figure 6: Slide Show
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Slide Master View
The Slide Master view (see Figure 7) lets you make changes
to the Slide Master. You can also add, delete, or duplicate multiple Slide
Masters and Slide Layouts.
Figure 7: Slide Master
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Handout Master View
This view (see Figure 8) allows you to edit the Handout Master
which influences the look and layout of the handouts you print from your presentation.
Figure 8: Handout Master
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Notes Master View
This view (see Figure 9) allows you to edit the Notes Master
which influences the look and layout of the notes pages within the presentation.
Figure 9: Note Master
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Outline View
This views is not available any longer in PowerPoint 2007 -- also PowerPoint
2007 no longer includes any equivalent of the Outlining toolbar.
However you can still perform all the outlining options within the Outline
pane visible in Normal view, as shown in Figure 10. This
pane displays a list of the slides titles and their contents in an outline
format.
You
can also drag the Outline pane to occupy a larger part of the onscreen
area to mimic the old Outline view. Also, all options of the Outlining toolbar
are now available through the right-click menus within the Outline pane.
Figure 10: Outline view
           
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