View and Move Around in PowerPoint Presentations

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 ...

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