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as you 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
PowerPoint has to offer including ways
to practice your presentation and take
notes first this view should be familiar
to you there's a place to navigate your
slides and a place to edit your
presentation this actually has a name
it's called normal view and it's one of
four views that you can access using the
buttons at the bottom of the 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
next up is reading view this fills most
of your screen with a preview of your
presentation leaving room for navigation
buttons here finally we have slideshow
view which completely fills the screen
with what the audience will see when you
present there's a handy menu in the
bottom left corner that appears only
when you move your mouse giving you the
ability to navigate your slides and
access other features like the pen and
highlighter tool thinking ahead a bit
I'd like to start writing some notes
about what I plan to say during my
presentation luckily PowerPoint has a
place for that two places actually the
first is the notes pane located at the
bottom of the screen you might need to
click the command 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 this is a great place
to add ideas talking points are 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 second place where you
can 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 on your
keyboard or the scroll bar on the right
you can also type your notes directly
into the textbox go ahead and zoom in if
you need to in addition to the notes
tool PowerPoint gives you a couple more
ways to prep and manage your slides for
instance have you ever written an
outline for something at work or at
school I think you'll 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 also
fine-tune things if you need to to exit
click the normal command at the bottom
of the window or right here on the View
tab the other thing I 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 then there are cats and other pets
so I think I'd like to create a section
for each to get started 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 the 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
other small pets now we can collapse and
expand the sections using the tiny
arrows next to each section named
altogether 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 prep 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