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Your slides remain the same, yet the various views in PowerPoint make exploring those same slides a little different. This approach makes sense because viewing slides in Slide Show view gives an entirely different perspective than editing them in Normal view. Further, it’s easier to reorder and work with multiple slides in Slide Sorter view and make changes to individual slides in Normal view. All put together, PowerPoint provides you with several different views. Many of these views can be accessed from the View tab of the Ribbon.
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Tagged as: 01-07, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Views
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The PowerPoint interface sports the Ribbon, which is tabbed. Each of these tabs contains a set of commands. By default, PowerPoint contains several such tabs. These Ribbon tabs can be customized, and you can indeed add a new Ribbon tab as well. In fact, you may have more tabs in your PowerPoint interface. Reordering these Ribbon tabs is also possible, depending upon your version of PowerPoint.
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Tagged as: 01-06, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Working with QAT and Ribbons
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John Wilson is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP who creates some cool add-ins for PowerPoint.
He participates in the PowerPoint newsgroups and runs the PowerPoint Alchemy site. John is based out of UK, and loves to hear from PowerPoint users about concepts and ideas to create even more PowerPoint add-ins!
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Editing any slide object works the same way, irrespective of whether you are editing a picture, a chart, some SmartArt, or even text. You select the object you want to edit and change some attributes. You then get to see your changes, and then you either undo your changes if you are not too happy with them, or just accept them. You can then start working on another object! What if you could see/preview how an actual change will look on the slide object before you decide to accept or decline that change? PowerPoint Live Preview allows you to do just that.
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The Outline view in PowerPoint provides access to your presentation’s text outline through the Slides/Outline pane on the left side of the PowerPoint interface. The Outline view displays all the text contained within the title and text placeholders of your slides, and is one of the ten views in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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