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Workspace

The Workspace has five tabs: Normal, Outline, Notes, Handout, and Slide Sorter. These five tabs are called View Buttons. There are also many toolbars that can be used during slide creation; they are revealed by selecting them with View > Toolbars. The actual Workspace section is below the View Buttons. This is where you assemble the various parts of your selected slide.

Each view is designed to ease the completion of certain tasks. In summary:

• Normal view is the main view for creating individual slides. Use this view to format and design slides and to add text, graphics, and animation effects.
• Outline view shows topic titles, bulleted lists, and numbered lists for each slide in outline format. Use this view to rearrange the order of slides, edit titles and headings, rearrange the order of items in a list, and add new slides.
• Notes view lets you add notes to each slide that are not seen when the presentation is shown.
• Slide Sorter view shows a thumbnail of each slide in order. Use this view to rearrange the order of slides, produce a timed slide show, or add transitions between selected slides.
• Handout view lets you print your slides for a handout. You can choose one, two, three, four, or six slides per page from Tasks pane > Layouts. Thumbnails can be re-arranged in this view by dragging and dropping them.

Normal view

There are two ways to place a slide in the Slide Design area of the Normal view: clicking the slide thumbnail in the Slides pane or using the Navigator.

To open the Navigator, click the Navigator button in the Standard Toolbar or press Ctrl+Shift+F5 and select a slide by scrolling down the Navigator list until you find the one you want and then double-click it. For more about using the Navigator, see this section.

Outline view

Outline view contains all of the slides of the presentation in their numbered sequence. Only the text in each slide is shown. Slide names are not included.

Outline view serves at least two purposes.

1. Making changes in the text of a slide:
   • Add or delete text in a slide just as in the Normal view.
   • Move the paragraphs of text in the selected slide up or down by using the up and down arrow buttons (Move Up or Move Down) on the Text Formatting toolbar.
   • Change the outline level for any of the paragraphs in a slide using the left and right arrow buttons (Promote or Demote).
   • Both move a paragraph and change its outline level using a combination of these four arrow buttons.
2. Comparing the slides with your outline (if you have prepared one in advance). If you notice from your outline that another slide is needed, you can create it directly in the Outline view or you can return to the Normal view to create it, then return to review all the slides against your outline in the Outline view.

If a slide is not in the correct sequence, you can move it to its proper place:

1. Click the slide icon of the slide you wish to move, as indicated below.
2. Drag and drop it where you want it.

Notes view

Use the Notes view to add notes to a slide:

1. Click the Notes tab in the Workspace (Figure 3).
2. Select the slide to which you will add notes.
   • Double-click the slide in the Slide pane, or
   • Double-click the slide’s name in the Navigator.
3. In the text box below the slide, click on the words Click to add notes and begin typing.

You can resize the notes text box using the green resizing handles and move it by placing the pointer on the border, then clicking and dragging. To make changes in the text style, press the F11 key to open the Styles and Formatting window.

Slide Sorter view

The Slide Sorter view contains all of the slide thumbnails. Use this view to work with a group of slides or with only one slide.

Change the number of slides per row, if desired:

1. Check View > Toolbars > Slide View to show the Slide view toolbar.
2. Adjust the number of slides (up to a maximum of 15).
3. After you have adjusted the number of slides per row, View > Toolbars > Slide View will remove this toolbar from view.

To move a slide in a presentation using the Slide Sorter:

1. Click the slide. A thick black border is drawn around it.
2. Drag and drop it to the location you want.
   • As you move the slide, a black vertical line appears to one side of the slide.
   • Drag the slide until this black vertical line is located where you want the slide to be moved.

To select a group of slides, use one of these methods:

• Use the Control (Ctrl) key: Click on the first slide and, while pressing Control, select the other desired slides.
• Use the Shift key: Click on the first slide, and while pressing the Shift key, select the final slide in the group. This selects all of the other slides in between the first and the last.
• Use the cursor: Click on the first slide to be selected. Hold down the left mouse button. Drag the cursor to the last slide thumbnail. A dashed outline of a rectangle forms as you drag the cursor through the slide thumbnails and a thick black border is drawn around the selected slides. Make sure the rectangle includes all the slides you want to select.

To move a group of slides:

1. Select the group.
2. Drag and drop the group to their new location. The same vertical black line appears to show you where the group of slides will go.

You can work with slides in the Slide Sorter view just as you can in the Slide pane.

To make changes, right-click a slide and do the following, using the pop-up menu:

• Add a new slide after the selected slide.
• Delete or rename the selected slide.
• Change the Slide Layout.
• Change the Slide Transition.
  • For one slide, click the slide to select it. Then add the desired transition.
  • For more than one slide, select the group of slides and add the desired transition.
• Mark a slide as hidden. Hidden slides will not be shown in the slide show.
• Copy or cut and paste a slide.

Handout view

Handout view is for setting up the layout of your slides for a printed handout. Click the Handout tab in the workspace, then choose Layouts in the tasks pane. You can then choose to print one, two, three, four, or six slides per page.

To print a handout:

1. Select the slides using the Slide Sorter. (Use the steps listed in selecting a group of slides.)
2. Select File > Print or press Control+P to open the Print dialog box.
3. Select Options in the bottom left corner of the Print dialog box.
4. Check Handouts in the Contents section, and then click OK.
5. Click OK to close the Print dialog box.

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