Views in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Your slides are the same, yet various views in PowerPoint allow you to see those same slides with a different viewpoint. 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 for Windows 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, below. You then click on any of the buttons in the Presentation Views and Master Views groups. 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:

1. Normal View
2. Outline View
3. Slide Sorter
4. Notes Page
5. Reading View
6. Slide Master
7. Handout Master
8. Notes Master

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

9. Slide Show
10. Presenter View

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, as shown in Figure 2, below.

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:

PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts

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