PowerPoint Basics:
Slides Thumbnails

Step-by-Step:Slide Thumbnails

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What you will learn:

to change which slide is shown in the Slide Pane to run animation to change order of slides to switch to Outline view

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Start with:, issues.ppt from your Class disk

Slides: Switch Slide Shown in Slide Pane

1. If necessary, open issues.ppt again. (It should be in a Recent Files list.)
    
2. If necessary, click on the Slides tab in the Navigation Pane to show the thumbnails of slides.
    
3. Click on each of the slide thumbnails in turn. The slide shown in the Slide Pane changes to match. Easy navigation!
    
4. Click on the Slide #1 again.
    

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Slides: Run Animation

1. Click on the animation icon below the number 1 by the thumbnail of Slide #1. In the Slide Pane to the right, the custom animation plays - Subtitle moves onto the screen from below.
    
2. Repeat for each slide:
   Click on the animation icon and observe the motion in the Slide Pane.
    
   In this presentation, all of the animations are different. Don't do that in a real presentation! It's bad design.

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Slides: Change Slide Order: Drag

1. Click on the thumbnail of Slide #3: Privacy. A dark blue border surrounds the thumbnail and the slide is shown in the Slide Pane.
    
2. Drag the thumbnail up. A line between thumbnails shows where the slide will be positioned if you drop.
    
3. When the drop line is between slides 1 and 2, drop. The thumbnail is moved and the slides are now in a new order.

   Position line shows where thumbnail will be if dropped

   Privacy is now Slide #2 instead of #3

4. Undo your change.

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Switch to Outline

1. In the Navigation Pane, click on the Outline tab. The view in the pane changes to show the outline of the presentation. The Navigation Pane widens to show more of the outline text.

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Save

1. From the File menu select Save . (Be sure your Class disk is still in the drive.) [issues.ppt]