Introduction Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 is the latest presentation graphics program of the Microsoft Office Suite. With Microsoft’s PowerPoint, you can quickly create professional presentations that help you communicate effectively and with impressive results. About PowerPoint Views Microsoft PowerPoint has three main views: normal view, slide sorter view, and slide show Normal view Normal view is the main editing view, which you use to write and design your presentation. The view. You can select a view, based on these main views, to be your default view in PowerPoint. view has three working areas: on the left, tabs that alternate between an outline of your slide text (Outline tab) and your slides displayed as thumbnails (Slides tab); on the right, the slide pane, which displays a large view of the current slide; and on the bottom, the notes pane.