Learn about the Editing view (Normal View) in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows. This is the view that you will use most of the time when you are creating and editing slides.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
OS: Windows 7 and higher
PowerPoint 2016 provides several views that enable you to view and edit your slides. Unarguably, Normal view is the default and most often used view (see Figure 1 below). This view displays one slide at a time in the Slide Area, and is used mainly for editing and creating slides, and shows PowerPoint's typical tri-pane interface that includes the Slides Pane, the Slide Area, and the Notes Pane. If you cannot see the Slides Pane in Normal view, scroll down this page to read a tip that will help you restore that pane. And if you cannot see the Notes Pane, all you need to do is to click the small Notes button on the Status Bar.
Figure 1: Normal View in PowerPoint 2016
To navigate to the next slide, you can use the vertical scrollbar on the Slide Area, or the Next and Previous buttons located at its bottom of the same vertical scrollbar. You can also use the Page Up and Page Down keys on your keyboard to navigate between the slides. These techniques are explained in further detail within our Slide Area tutorial.
If you are not in Normal view, you can easily get to this view by choosing the View tab on Ribbon, and clicking the Normal button (highlighted in red within Figure 2).
Figure 2: Normal button within Presentation Views group
Other than the View tab of the Ribbon, you can also access Normal view by clicking the Normal button (highlighted in red within Figure 3) located towards the right side of the Status Bar.
Figure 3: Normal view button on the Status Bar
Here are some keyboard shortcuts that will help you navigate Normal view:
Shortcut Manager, a third party PowerPoint add-in allows you to create your own shortcut keys in PowerPoint, read the Indezine review of Shortcut Manager.
Do you want more keyboard shortcuts?
Explore our PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts and Sequences Ebook that is updated for all PowerPoint versions.
See Also:
Views: Normal View (Editing View) in PowerPoint (Index Page)
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