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get further into developing your
presentation it can be helpful to learn
how to review and manage your slides you
might be surprised by some of the tools
that PowerPoint has to offer including
ways to practice your presentation and
take notes this default view should be
familiar to you there is a place on the
left to navigate your slides and a place
here to edit your presentation this
actually has a name and it's called
normal view it's one of four views that
you can access using the buttons at the
bottom of the PowerPoint window the
second view is slide sorter where you'll
find thumbnail versions of each slide in
your presentation here you can easily
change the order of your slides just by
dragging and dropping the thumbnails
up next is reading view this fills most
of your screen with a preview of your
presentation leaving room for navigation
buttons here at the bottom finally we
have slideshow view which completely
fills the screen with what the audience
will see when you present there's a
helpful menu in the bottom left corner
that will appear only when you move the
mouse giving you the ability to navigate
your slides and access other features
like the pin and highlighter tools
thinking ahead a bit I'd like to start
writing some notes about what I plan to
say during my presentation PowerPoint
actually offers two different ways to do
this the first is in the notes pane
located at the bottom of the screen you
might need to click the command here to
make it appear first I'm going to click
and drag the edge of the pane to make it
a little bigger now we can click inside
and start typing our notes for this
slide this is a great place to add ideas
talking points or just little reminders
for yourself there's even a way to print
these notes so you can refer to them
later when you're presenting the other
way to view and enter notes can be found
on the View tab just click the notes
page command and you can focus on the
notes for each slide one at a time
to navigate use the arrow keys in your
keyboard or the scroll bar on the right
you can also type your notes directly
into the text box and go ahead and zoom
in if you need to you here
in addition to the notes tool PowerPoint
gives you a couple more ways to prepare
and manage your slides for example if
you've ever written an outline for
something at work or school you'll
probably like this next feature all you
have to do is click the command that
says outline view and the left pane will
display an outline version of all the
text in your slides this makes it easy
to review the contents of your
presentation and you can also find tuned
the text from here if you need to
to exit this view click the normal
command at the bottom of the window or
here on the View tab
the other thing I'd like to do at this
point is organize my slides into
sections which can make them easier to
navigate in this example we have sort of
a two-part presentation first there are
dogs and then there are cats on other
pets so I think I'd like to create a
section for each select the slide where
you want your first section to begin
then go to the Home tab click the
section command and choose add section
from the menu to name this section while
it's still selected click the command
again then go ahead and choose rename
we're going to label this one dogs to
make it easy to tell the sections apart
next I'm going to repeat the process to
create another section later in the
presentation
it's going to start with this slide here
and it's going to be called cats and
small pets
now we can collapse and expand the
sections using the tiny arrows next to
each section name
as you can see sections are a great way
to break up your presentation so you can
display only the slides you're currently
working with now you know several
different ways to prepare and manage
your slides how you use these features
is up to you but they're bound to come
in handy as you continue working in
PowerPoint
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