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Changing views and adding guides

Changing views and adding guides

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Changing views and adding guides

- Most of the time, you'll be working in what PowerPoint calls Normal View. That is, a pane of slides displayed vertical along the left hand side and the currently selected slide displayed large on the right. This is what we're looking at now and it's the primary way to use PowerPoint. If I need a different view of these thumbnails, I can hover my mouse over the lines separating the two and drag it to the right to make the thumbnails larger or drag it to the left to make the thumbnails smaller. But sometimes we need something different. Let's go to the View ribbon tab to see what our options are. There's five main presentation views. The first is Normal and that's what we're working in. But you can also click on Outline View. This is a text only way of looking at your slides. I'll be showing you how to use Outline View later. You can also change to the Slide Sorter View. This is a great way to get an overview of what your slides look like. You can use the zoom slider on bottom right…

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