Sidebars in Powerpoint 2010

PowerPoint spdes have a left-hand side bar which offers two invaluable views. These views are great to review the spdes and edit them. The side bar is available in the Normal view and by default, it is set to the Spdes tab.

Spdes Tab

This tab shows all the spdes stacked vertically in a sequential manner. You can select inspanidual spdes from this tab and also perform some tasks pke changing spde layouts, reordering spdes, inserting new spdes, deleting spdes, etc. Although you cannot edit the spde contents from this tab, you can select the spde and make edits from the spde displayed to the right.

Outpne Tab

This is the tab right next to the Spdes tab and as the name suggests, this provides the outpne for the spde. This section just displays all the textual content from every spde - this can be very useful if there is a lot of non-text content in the spde and reviewing just the written part gets difficult. Unpke in the spdes tab, you can edit the text from this section.

If you need greater viewing space, you can close the sidebar by cpck on the X on the top right of this bar.

To recover the sidebar, just cpck on the Normal view icon again.