When opening Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 presentations, the documents will appear in the view used when saving the file. You may see only the slides, notes, or a combination of the outline, thumbnails, notes, and/or slide.

Depending on you needs and workflow you may instead need all PowerPoint 2003 presentations to open in a view you determine.

1. Select "Tools" - "Options".

2. The "Options" multi-tabbed dialog box will appear.

3. Click the "View" tab.

4. Underneath "Default view", click the pull-down to choose the view you wish used when documents are opened. The options are:

* The view saved in the file - DEFAULT

* Normal - outline, notes and slide

* Normal - thumbnails, notes and slide

* Normal - outline and slide

* Normal - thumbnails and slide

* Normal - notes and slide

* Normal - slide only

* Outline Only

* Slide Sorter

* Notes

5. When you have made your selection, click "OK" to save your settings and close the dialog box.

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