The Slide Sorter View shows numbered thumbnails of the slides, in order going across the window. The current slide has an extra border, gold or orange, depending on the version of PowerPoint. What can you do in Slide Sorter View?- Change the order of slides by dragging the thumbnails or by using cut and paste.
- Select multiple slides at once.
- Delete a slide or a group of slides.
- Add a new slide.
- Copy and paste a slide or slides.
- Run the transition or animation effect on the slide's thumbnail.
The Slide Sorter View is the best view when you need to move, copy, or delete a lot of slides. What can't you do in Slide Sorter View?- Edit contents of slides.
(Use Normal view.) - Add or edit notes.
(Use Notes Page View or Notes Pane in Normal view)
Icon for animation/transition: The iconbelow a slide thumbnail in Slide Sorter view means that the slide has a slide transition or animation. Clicking the icon will run the effect on the thumbnail. Handy dandy!
Step-by-Step: Slide Sorter
What you will learn:to switch to Slide Sorter view
to run animation in this view
to select slides
to copy slides
to move slides with cut and paste
to move slides by dragging
to delete slides
Start with:, issues3-Lastname-Firstname.pptx from your Class disk Switch to Slide Sorter ViewClick onthe Slide Sorter button on the Views bar.
The window changes to the Slide Sorter view with thumbnails of the slides running across the pane.Alternate method: Ribbon: View > Presentation Views > Slide Sorter
Slide Sorter View: Run AnimationsA slide that has an animation effects has an animation icon below the slide thumbnail. Clicking the icon runs the animation on the slide right there in Slide Sorter view. So tiny, but so cute! Still in Slide Sorter view, click on, the animation icon below the Slide 1 thumbnail.
Any transition and animations play on the slide thumbnail without your needing to click to advance each one. When you select an transition or animation, you can choose whether or not a mouse click is needed for the effect to play. A transition brings the next slide into view. You might see only a background until the slide's animations run.
An animation brings a part of the slide into view. - Repeat for each of the other slides.
This presentation is not an example of 'best practices. It uses too many different transitions and animations. Of course a presentation might not have any transitions or animations at all.
Slide Sorter View: Select SlidesYou can use the same methods to select multiple slides that you use in Windows Explorer/File Explorer to select multiple files. Slides that are selected have a thick, colored border. Methods:- Adjacent slides: Click the first slide. While holding SHIFT down, click the last slide. All slides in between are selected.
- Non-adjacent slides: Click the first slide. While holding CTRL down, click on each of the other slides you want to select.
- Select adjacent slides:
Click on the Slide #1 at the top left. Hold SHIFT key down and click on Slide #5. All slides are selected.
- Deselect slides: Click in a blank area to unselect all slides.
- Select non-adjacent slides: Click on slide #2. Hold down the CTRL key and click on slide #4. Those two slides are selected but not slide #3.
- Deselect slides: Click in a blank area to deselect the slides.
Slide Sorter View: Copy SlidesYou can duplicate existing slides instead of having to set the same features all over again. You will practice with duplicates of the current 5 slides. This is probably most useful when you have created a complex layout that you want to use in several slides. Turning that layout into a new Master is a better approach if you will use it on many slides. - Select all of the slides with the key combo CTRL + A.
(This notation means to hold the CTRL key down while you press A, then release both keys.)
This method is very useful when you need to select more slides than show on the screen right now!
- Clickthe Copy button on the Home tab.
OR
Use the key combo CTRL + C.
- Click to the right of the last slide. A vertical bar appears, showing where a new or pasted slide will go.
Paste by clicking the Paste button on the Home tab.
OR
Use the key combo CTRL + V.Duplicates of all 5 slides appear. Alternate method: Duplicate
Instead of just Copy & Paste, after selecting the slides, click the arrow by the Copy button and click on Duplicate in the menu.- Paste three more times.
You now have 25 slides. (Check the slide numbers below the slides or the Status bar.)
This should be too many to fit in the window.
- Scroll to see all of the slides.
The length of the scroll bar gives you a clue as to how many rows are out of sight.
- Change the Zoom on the bottom right of the PowerPoint window until you can see all 25 slides at once.
Your arrangement will depend on the size of your PowerPoint window and may not look like the illustration.
Slide Sorter View: Move Slides with Cut and Paste- Hold the CTRL key down and click on the Title slides, #1,6,11,16,21. (These are all of the Title slides.)
Scroll if necessary to see all of the slides. Be sure to that the CTRL key is pressed down when you click on a slide or you will be starting a new selection instead of adding to the selection.
- Cut the slides by clickingthe Cut button on the Home ribbon tab.
The selected slides vanish.
OR
Use the key combo CTRL + X.
- Click to the left of the new Slide #1 and paste.
All 5 Title slides appear.
- Repeat the procedure for the Security and Privacy slides to place the duplicate slides next to each other, keeping the original order of slides: Title, Security, Privacy
You will move the other duplicates with the drag method.
Slide Sorter: Move Slides by DraggingYou may want to reduce the Zoom so you can see better where to drop the slides as you drag. - Scroll until you can see the Slide #16, the first slide Unethical: Spam.
The duplicates of Unethical: Spam and Discussion: Ethics are alternating since you moved the duplicates of the other slides. - Drag Slide #18, a duplicate of Unethical: Spam, to the left until the vertical bar or the slide thumbnail (2013, 2016) is between slides 16 and 17.
- Drop.
The slide is moved.
- Repeat for the other copies of Unethical: Spam.
Now all the slides are grouped with their duplicates.You did not have to do anything to the slides Discussion: Ethics. They got grouped by being left behind!
Slide Sorter View: Delete SlidesEnough is enough. It's time to get rid of all these duplicate slides. The DELETE key makes this easy!
Does the slide Sorter view contains all the slide thumbnails?
Slide Sorter view (below) displays all the slides in your presentation in horizontally sequenced, thumbnails. Slide show view is helpful if you need to reorganize your slides—you can just click and drag your slides to a new location, or add sections to organize your slides into meaningful groups.
What display the slides as thumbnails?
The correct answer is Slide sorter. PowerPoint Slide Sorter is one of the views available in Microsoft PowerPoint that lets you view all of your slides as horizontally sorted thumbnails. It helps to organize slides better, as you can rearrange them using drag and drop.
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