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Let's spend a couple of minutes getting to know more about the various views in PowerPoint. As the name suggests, views are different perspectives or snapshots, if you will, of your PowerPoint presentation. The first view we have, which is the big area right here, this is all considered one view, has the very exciting name of normal view. And I don't come up with this, but there you go. It's called normal view and it is the main editing area where we design our presentation. So within the normal view we have four working areas. Let's take a look at each one of those. On the left we have our slides tab. This gives us the birds-eye view, if you will, of our presentation. These are thumbnails of the slides that we have. I click on one thumbnail and over here displays the full-size version of the slide. Now, one of the nifty things you can do from here is rearrange slides like so, just by clicking, holding and dragging. I can also delete a slide. Making sure it's selected, I hit the delete key and it's gone, go back to undo to bring that back. So that's just a couple of things that you can do with this particular slide. Now, another view that we have, or the second area, is also over here and we click. This is our outline tab. Now, what this gives you as the name suggests is an outline view or version of your slides. So you can go to the different slides and this will give you text, you just hit the enter key here, tab to move that over so I can start adding text. We have bullet points. So that automatically is entered into our slide as you see here. I can delete that. Now, I don't work in the outline view very much. This is more for I guess I'll say people who are more text-oriented than visual-oriented, or if you're having a little bit of hard time trying to figure out contextually how your presentation is going to go together. Now, again, some folks, I'm going to take a side note here, some folks can get a little carried away with the bells and whistles of PowerPoint. Look at all the neat pictures I can add, the sound effects, the animation, so forth and so on and they forget that you are trying to actually present information to somebody, not wow them with your PowerPoint ooh and ahs. So this may be helpful for you to start your work in the outline view and actually start organizing your content. Again, you can also rearrange slides like so. Ok? So that's just a little look at the outline view. Let's go back to our slides view. Now, the third area or the third working area in the normal view is called the slide pane. Now, the slide pane, which is this big area right here, is actually where we do 99 percent of our work. This is the large view or magnified view of the current slide. Again, as I select various slides in our presentation, the slide comes up. Here's where we can edit text and otherwise work on our slide. Now, you can do pretty much anything here as far as adding graphics, smart art, charts, tables, so forth and so on.