Views in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Your slides remain the same, yet exploring the same slides using a different view makes sense, depending upon the tasks you want to do. For example, it's easier to reorder and work with multiple slides in Slide Sorter view, and make changes to individual slides in Normal view. All put together, PowerPoint 2013 provides you will ten different views. Eight of these views can be accessed from the View tab of the Ribbon, as shown in Figure 1. Then click on any of the buttons in the Presentation Views and Master Views group. All views are explained in more detail in separate, linked pages.

Figure 1: View tab of the Ribbon

PowerPoint 2013 views accessible from the View tab of the Ribbon are:

We also explore two other views which are accessible from other tabs of the Ribbon, or elsewhere within the PowerPoint 2013 interface:

Other than the View tab of the Ribbon, you can also access most of these views by clicking the four small buttons towards the right side of the Status Bar (see Figure 2).

Figure 2: View buttons

These four buttons (explained from left to right) allow quick access to the same views, in addition to just clicking these four buttons, you can also click them while pressing the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys, this table provides details on the results of these key combinations:

	Click	Shift-click	Ctrl-click	Alt-click
Normal	Normal View	Slide Master	No Shortcut	Brings up the Outline view
Slide Sorter	Slide Sorter View	Handout Master	No Shortcut	No Shortcut
Reading	Reading View	Brings up Set Up Show dialog box	Goes to Browsed by an Individual view	Goes to Browsed by an Individual view
Slide Show	Slide Show	Brings up Set Up Show dialog box	Brings up the Present Online option	Goes to a quarter screen Slide Show view

Tip: Do you want to learn about some new shortcuts? Or do you want to know if your favorite keyboard shortcuts are documented? Go and get a copy of our PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts E-Book.