The view that displays the slides on a presentation as miniature representation of the slides

Tools • • • • • A B placeholder empty objects on a new slide that reserve a space for the type of information you want to insert. powerpoint a software program that allows you to create professional looking multimedia presentations. slide a single page of a presentation in a slide show. slide master controls the formatting for all the slides in the presentation. slide sorter the view that displays miniature versions of the slides so that you can move and arrange slides easily by dragging. slideshow the view that allows you to run your presentstion and review how it will look. transition an effect that determines how one slide is removed from the screen and how the next appears. background the underlying color of a slide. notes page allows the user to create notes to be used with the presentation of each slide. scroll bar a graphical device for moving vertically and horizontally through a presentation slide with the pointer. animation the audio include with effects and transitions to give the presentation a "real" veiwing experience auto layout menu the menu containing ready'made placeholders for titiles, text, and objects such as clip art, graphs, and charts bullets marks, usually a round or square dot, used to emphasize of distinguish items in a list edit box the figure which appears when your adding text to a slide; it has white squares that surround it for editing purposes effects the formatting features that move the text on and off of the single slides outline view vi...

Microsoft PowerPoint offers several different presentation views, which are the ways you can display your presentation and work on it or show it to your audience. Each of these views is optimised for a specific purpose making some operations easier and faster, but blocking access to other ones or making them more complicated. For short and simple presentations you may choose to only work in Normal view and present your slide in Slide Show view. It’s perfectly understandable and may indeed be the fastest. For larger and more complex slide decks you will see the advantage of switching between all the views described below as you go through the different stages of presentation creation, revision, rehearsal and showing it to your audience. What is a Normal view in PowerPoint? The Normal view is the default view in PowerPoint. It’s the way you see all presentations when creating or opening them unless you changed your PowerPoint configuration to use a different view as default. It is by far the most frequently used view. Although it’s best for creating and editing presentation slides, PowerPoint users often perform all other operations using the Normal view, including arranging the slides, reviewing slide content and speaker’s notes and presenting in front of an audience. It may seem faster and more practical, but I definitely recommend learning about all available views and at the very minimum switching to Slideshow view for presenting. When dealing with longer and more comple...