Once you have created some slides, you are likely to want to work with them to refine your content. For example, you may want to move among your slides to review their content, delete or copy certain slides, move slides, or hide them in the presentation.
The Slides tab is useful for viewing the slides in your presentation as thumbnails, which appear next to the larger view of the selected slide displayed in Normal view.
Sometimes while refining a presentation you will want to delete a slide that’s no longer relevant or copy and paste a slide from one place or one presentation to another. There is also a handy, one step feature to duplicate a slide by copying and pasting. Sometimes the contents of your presentation need reorganizing, and when that happens, you can move slides around quite easily in Slide Sorter view.
Finally, you can choose not to show certain slides while running your presentation by hiding them. You can easily unhide them when you need to use them again. This makes it easy to customize presentations for different audiences.
PowerPoint offers several views of your slides. In Normal view, the Slide pane is the central display of the currently selected slide. This is where you typically focus on the design elements of each slide. In addition, the Slides tab, which is coupled with the Outline tab to the left of the Slide pane, shows all the slides in your presentation in order. Use this tab to get an overview of the look and contents of all slides side by side with one slide shown in more detail.
Click the Slides tab in the Slides/Outline pane in Normal view; the Slides tab appears.
From the Slides tab do any of the following to move around your presentation:Click the Scroll Down button to move ahead in the presentation.
Click the Scroll Up button to move back in the presentation.
Click and drag the scrollbar to move ahead or back in the presentation by one or more slides at a time.
Click a slide to select it; the slide is then displayed in the Slide pane.
Tip
Can’t find the Slides tab? If the Slides/Outline pane is not visible in Normal view, at some point you closed it. Just click the Normal view button to restore it.
Try This!
You can resize the Slides tab to see more or fewer of the slides in your presentation and to enlarge the contents of each slide. Click the border between the Slides tab and Slide pane and drag it to the right to enlarge the Slides tab and to the left to shrink it.
Tip
The Zoom slider in the bottom right corner of the PowerPoint 2007 screen is new. Use it to zoom in and out of the selected slide’s contents in the Slide pane. If you zoom out and enlarge the contents and then need more space to show the enlarged slide onscreen, you can shrink the Slides tab using the method described in the Try This tip.