What happened to the sidebar in PowerPoint?

[fairydustpink89]

In PowerPoint, whenever I make a ne wPresentation, there's a sidebar on the
left that shows my slides. I accidentally closed the sidebar off and I can't
figure out how to put it back on. Any suggestions?

 

[Jaime]

Telling us the version of PowrePoint you are using is always helpful, as the
instructions may be different for the various versions.

Down at the bottom of the screen you should see several buttons (toward the
right in 2007 or the left in earlier versions). Those buttons start the
Slide Show, show the Slide Sorter, etc.; one of those buttons also
show/hides the thumbnails or outline on the left side.

 

[John Wilson]

You need to get to OPTIONs which as Jaime says is different in various versions

There look for "Open All Docs using This View"