View

Action

Normal

Shows your slide as it will appear during the presentation. You are allowed to edit your slide from this view.

Slide Sorter

Opens the Slide Sorter toolbar and presents miniatures of each slide, allowing you to reorder the slides and add builds within them and/or transitions between them.

Notes Page

Illustrates what speaker notes and audience notes will look like.

Slide Show

Shows the slides as if you were actually presenting. You are not able to edit slides in this view.

Outline tab (within the Outline and Slides pane)

Shows you the text of your slides in a larger outline format than the Normal view. You can organize information using drag-and-drop within outline view.

Slides tab (within the Outline and Slides pane)

Similar to Slide Sorter view, where you can view all the slides in your presentation, rearrange and hide slides and view set transitions while you work on your presentation.