PowerPoint provides four types of views. Three of them helps you to develop your presentation: Normal, Slide Sorter and Slide Show. Different types of views used by PowerPoint are as follows:
- Normal view: Whenever a user first creates a slide, the screen opens in Normal view. It is a default view and is used for designing. It provides a large view of a single slide at a time.
- Slide Sorter view: In slide sorter view, thumbnails of all the slides in your presentation are laid out for you in the workspace. An overall view of your presentation is provide in this view. It is a good tool to help you arrange and resequence the slides it comprises.
- Slide Show view: Slide show view is used to deliver the presentation. It steps through each slide sequentially.
- Notes page view: It provides a small writing area to write some notes about a slide. Notes are shown on printouts but not in slide shows.
- Outline view: It used for adding users text for a slide show. When you switch to the outline pane by clicking on its tab, a list of numbered headings is displyed, each one corresponding to a slide. To display that slide in the workspace, click on a heading.
