PowerPoint provides four views of presentation content. You can edit slide content in these two views:
Normal view. This is the default view. This view displays three panes:
The Navigation pane, which displays either the Slides page showing thumbnails of the slides in the active presentation or the Outline page showing an outline view of the text in the presentation.
The Slide pane, which shows the currently selected slide as it will appear in the presentation.
The Notes pane, which provides a place for entering notes about the current slide. These notes might be related to the development of the slide or they might be speaker notes that you will refer to when delivering the presentation.
You can change the size of the panes in Normal view by dragging the splitter bars between the Navigation pane and the Slide pane left or right, and by dragging the splitter bar between the Slide pane and the Notes pane up or down. You can close the Navigation pane by clicking the Close button in its upper-right corner, and restore it by clicking the Normal view button on the View toolbar.
Slide view. This view displays the current slide at the maximum size supported by the open presentation window.
You can’t edit slide content in the following two views:
Slide Sorter view. This view displays thumbnails of every slide in the presentation. You can insert and delete slides; rearrange slides by dragging, copying, cutting, and pasting; and select multiple slides to set a common property, such as a transition or a theme.
Slide Show view. This view displays the full-screen slide show of your presentation.
See Also
For information about entering text on PowerPoint slides, see "Add Content to Slides" in Chapter 6.
You can switch between views of a presentation by using the following methods:
To move between slides, do any of the following:
On the Slides page of the Navigation pane, use the vertical scroll bar on the right side of the Navigation pane to access all the slides. Click the slide you want to display.
Use the vertical scroll bar on the right side of the Slide pane.
Click the Previous Slide or Next Slide button at the bottom of the Slide pane scroll bar.
Press the Up Arrow, Left Arrow, or Page Up key to move to the previous slide, and the Down Arrow, Right Arrow, or Page Down key to move to the next slide.
When a text box is active, you can use the keyboard shortcuts described in the following table to move around in slide text.
To move... | Press... |
|---|---|
To the left one charactert | Left Arrow |
To the right one character | Right Arrow |
To the beginning of the current word, or to the left one word | Option+Left Arrow |
To the right one word | Option+Right Arrow |
To the beginning of a line | Home |
To the end of a line | End |
Up one line | Up Arrow |
Down one line | Down Arrow |
To the beginning of a paragraph, or up one paragraph | Option+Up Arrow |
Down one paragraph | Option+Down Arrow |
To the beginning of a text box | Option+Home |
To the end of a text box | Option+End |