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Each Office 2019 application has a variety of viewing options available. Each view is suited for a certain type of activity in that Office 2019 application. For example, in Word, you can choose Draft view, which is speedy to work with and presents the text in a simple one-column layout. Or you can choose a Print Layout view, where you can see any special layout formatting you applied, such as multiple columns.

These views are available in Office 2019:

  • Excel 2019
    • Normal: Displays a regular row-and-column grid.
    • Page Break Preview: Shows a zoomed-out version of the worksheet with page break lines that you can drag to adjust where they fall.
    • Page Layout: Displays the content as it will appear on a printed page.
  • Word 2019
    • Read Mode: Optimizes the display for onscreen reading. You cannot edit the document in this view.
    • Print Layout: Shows the document approximately as it will be printed, including any layout features, such as multiple columns.
    • Web Layout: Displays the document as it will appear if saved as a web page and published on a website.
    • Outline: Displays the document as an outline, with headings as outline levels.
    • Draft: Displays the document in simple text form, in a single column.
  • PowerPoint 2019
    • Normal: This default view provides multiple panes for working with the content.
    • Outline: The same as Normal view except instead of thumbnails of each slide you see a text outline of slide content.
    • Slide Sorter: All of the slides appear as thumbnail images, which is useful for rearranging the order of slides.
    • Notes Page: Each slide appears as a graphic on a page where notes are displayed.
    • Reading View: Similar to Slide Show view except in a floating window rather than full screen.
    • Slide Show: The presentation is shown to the audience, one slide at a time. The Slide Show view controls appear on the Slide Show tab, rather than on the View tab with the other views.
Each Office 2019 application has shortcut buttons to a few of the most common views. You can find these buttons to the left of the Zoom slider. Hover your mouse over a button to find out which view it selects.

Offie 2019 zoom slider and views

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Faithe Wempen is an adjunct instructor at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). She is the author of over 150 books on computer hardware and software, and an online technology courseware developer whose courses have educated over a quarter of a million people.

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