How to add, delete, copy a slide in a Google Docs presentation. Delete slides in PowerPoint

You can change the placeholder's size by changing its position by changing the font, size, case, color, or spacing of the text within it. You can also remove the placeholder.

Important: If you change a slide layout that has been applied to one or more slides in your presentation, for example by adding, changing, or removing a placeholder, you will need to reapply the layout to the slides to update them.

Change the placeholder

On the tab View in Group Sample Modes select item Sample slides.

In the layout, click the placeholder you want to change and do one of the following:

• To resize it, hover over one of the resizing handles, and when the pointer changes to a double-headed arrow, drag the handle.

  To change the position of a frame, select one of its borders, and when the mouse pointer turns into a four-way arrow, drag the frame to the new location.

  To change the font, size, case, color, or character spacing of text, select the text and on the home in Group Font select the options you want.

  To group objects, such as pictures, shapes, clips, or charts, select the first object you want to add to the group, press CTRL, and click more objects. In chapter Drawing Tools open the tab Format, select in group Location team Format and select the item twice Grouping.

  Notes:

  • You can group objects in placeholders, but not label placeholders. However, you can add a shape Inscription and group it with other objects. To do this, on the tab Insert in Group Figures In chapter Basic figures select element Inscription.

    To ungroup objects, in the section Drawing Tools on the tab Format select item Grouping and team Ungroup.

On the tab Sample slides in Group Close select item Close sample mode.

Important: The placeholder for changes to be the final reapply of the slide layout to the slides of the modified slide layout. To reapply a layout to a slide, in the Slide Thumbnail list, select the slide that follows the layout you changed.

On the tab home in Group Slides click the button Layout and select the layout that contains the modified placeholders.

Removing filler

On the tab View in Group Sample Modes select item Sample slides.

Click the border of the placeholder you want to delete, and then press DELETE.

On the tab Sample slides in Group Close select item Close sample mode.

Important: The placeholder for changes to be the final reapply of the slide layout to the slide. To reapply a layout to a slide, in the Slide Thumbnail list, select the slide that enforces the layout that no longer contains the handouts.

On the tab home in Group Slides click the button Layout and select the modified layout.

Let's take a quick look at how to hide and remove slides in a great software Keynote from Apple.

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How to Hide and Delete Slides in Keynote

Let's take a quick look at how to hide and delete slides in Apple's excellent Keynote app.

Note: watch this one short video lesson or follow the steps below.

1. How to hide slides in Keynote

Hiding a slide will leave it in the Keynote file, but it will not appear in the slide show presentation. To do this, you can simply right-click on the slide in the sidebar and select Skip slide.

Select Skip slide to hide a slide in Keynote.

The slide will become a very small line and will no longer be visible. You can click on it to see it in the sidebar, but it won't show up in the slideshow view. You can always Cmd + click on multiple slide thumbnails, and then select the same option Skip slide to skip them all.

In Keynote, you can hide multiple slides at once.

2. How to delete a slide in Keynote

Then you might want to remove the slides from the stack entirely. To do this, Cmd + click for those that we want to delete. Then you can do Ctrl + click, and then choose to delete slides. This will delete all the slides we have selected so they no longer exist.

You can easily remove slides from a presentation in Keynote.

3. How to undelete a slide

Of course you can undo the deletion of a slide using Edit > Undo. You can also bring back hidden slides using Ctrl + click on any slide that is hidden and select Do not miss.

You can undelete a slide in Keynote.

Either way, you can customize what's in the slideshow and what's not with these two commands.

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PowerPoint has all the features you need to create professional presentations. When you create PowerPoint presentation, it is a series of slides. Slides contain the information you want to convey to your audience. It may include text, pictures, graphics, videos, sounds and more.

Before you start adding information to your slides, you need to know some basic slide techniques. In this lesson, you'll learn how to insert a new slide, change the layout, change the presentation view, and more.

Slide Basics

Each PowerPoint presentation is a series of slides. To start creating a presentation, you need to know the basics of working with slides. You will need to do things like add a new slide, change the slide layout, change the order of the slides, and add notes and comments to the slide.

About the slides

They may also have miniature icons representing certain commands, such as Picture, Add Chart, Insert Video. In PowerPoint, just hover your mouse over these icons to see what type of content you can add to the placeholder.

Slide Layouts

The fillers are located on different layouts, which can be applied to existing slides or selected during creation new slide. The slide layout positions the content using various types placeholders, depending on what type of information you want to include in your presentation.

In the example above, the slide layout is called Title and object. It contains a header and placeholders. Each layout has a descriptive title and a thumbnail showing the location of the placeholders.

Customizing Slide Layouts

To change the layout of an existing slide:

Select the slide you want to change.

Click on the command Layout in Group Slides on the tab home. A menu will appear.

Select the desired layout from the menu. The slide in the presentation will change.

To remove a placeholder:

You can easily customize your layout by removing unwanted or extra fillers.

Place your mouse cursor on border filler from points, the cursor will look like cross with arrows.

Click on the border to select it.

Press the key Backspace or Delete. The placeholder will be removed from the slide.

To add a Caption:

A caption can be added to your current layout, so you can place text anywhere on the slide.

On the tab Insert, click on the command Inscription.

The mouse cursor will change to a cross.

Press and hold down and drag the cursor until you draw a text field.

To use a blank slide:

For better content control, you may prefer to use a blank slide (a slide with no placeholders). Blank slides can be customized by adding captions, pictures, charts, and more.

Select Blank slide in the Layout command menu.

Working with slides

To insert a new slide:

On the tab home click on the bottom of the command Create slide to open the menu.

Select the slide you want to insert.

A new slide will be added to the presentation.

*To immediately add a slide with the same layout as the currently selected slide, simply click on the top of the command Create slide.

To copy and paste a slide:

On the tab Slides On the left side, select the desired slide.

Click on the command Copy on the tab home. You can also right-click on the selected slide and select Copy.

In the left pane, click on the slide below (or between two slides) to select where the copied slide appears. A horizontal insertion point will indicate the location.

Click the Paste command on the Home tab. Or right-click and select Paste. The copied slide appears.

*To select multiple slides, press and hold the key Ctrl, and click on the desired slides. To duplicate a slide:

An alternative to the Copy and Paste commands is the command Duplicate selected slides, which in one step copies the selected slide and pastes that copy below. This feature doesn't let you choose where to paste (and won't prompt you to choose paste options). Therefore, it is useful for quickly inserting similar slides.

Select the desired slide.

Click on the command Create slide.

Select Duplicate Selected Slides from the drop-down menu.

A copy of the slide will appear below the original.

To delete a slide:

Select the desired slide.

Press the key Delete or Backspace.

To move a slide:

Select the desired slide.

Click on the slide and, without releasing it, drag it to a new location. The horizontal insertion point will indicate the location.

Let go mouse button. The slide will appear in a new location.

Slide and presentation management

When you add slides to a presentation, PowerPoint offers several slide options and tools to help you organize and prepare your presentation.

Types of slides

It is important that you have access to different types slides and used them for different purposes. Teams Slide view located at the bottom right if Normal view is selected.

Normal view: This view is selected by default. You can create, edit, and move slides from the Slides tab in the left pane.

Slide sorter: Displays smaller versions of all slides on the screen. You can easily move the slides around with your mouse, changing their order and seeing what happens. This view is useful for checking that all slides are present.

Reading mode: In this form most of screen is occupied by the presentation in preview mode. Unlike the Slide Show view, the navigation buttons located at the bottom right are easily accessible.

Slide show: In this view, the entire screen is occupied by slides, and in the same form as they are visible to the audience. In this mode, a navigation menu and some functions are available, which appears when you hover the mouse over it.

*Use the keys on your keyboard (arrow keys, Page Up and Page Down, Spacebar, and Enter) to move through the slides in Slide Show mode. Press the Esc key to exit this mode.

To see the structure of your presentation:

The Structure tab displays the presentation text as a structure. This allows you to quickly edit text and see the content of multiple slides at the same time.

Click on the tab Structure on the left panel.

The text of the slides appears as an outline.

Write directly on the panel to change the text.

To organize slide sections:

You can organize your slides into sections to make your presentation easier to navigate. Sections can be collapsed and expanded in the left pane and named to make them easier to reference. In this example we will add two sections:

Select the slide to start the first section on.

On the tab home click on the command Chapter.

Select Add section from the drop down menu.

A No Title section will appear in the left pane.

To rename a section while it is selected, click on the command Chapter and select from the drop-down menu Rename section.

Enter a new partition name in the dialog box. Click Rename.

Repeat the steps, adding the required number of sections.

On the left panel, click on arrow next to the section name to collapse or expand it.

Adding notes to slides

PowerPoint gives you the ability to add notes to your slides, often called speaker notes. They allow you to better prepare for the presentation. You can enter and read notes in the Notes panel or on the Notes page. To use the Notes panel:

Panel Notes located at the bottom of the screen under the panel Slides.

Click and drag the panel border to make it smaller or larger.

Enter your notes on the panel notes.

To see note pages:

Go to the tab View.

Click on the command Notes pages in Group Presentation viewing modes.

Enter your notes in text field or use scroll bar to view the slides.

We get one slide. We design it and fill it with content. How to add a new slide?
In the “Home” menu, click on the “Create Slide” icon.

A slide appears with a universal layout and design of the theme used. If there is a need to use a non-standard placeholder option in the layout, then click not on the “Create Slide” icon, but on the “Create Slide” text. A drop-down menu appears with which we can select the desired layout:

You can also add a new slide using a keyboard shortcut (hotkey) " Ctrl+M".

Deleting slides

There are many ways to remove sludge.
Slides can be deleted using the keyboard. Select the desired slide in the “Slides” window and press the “Delete” key or the “Backspace” key on your keyboard. Another way to delete is using the context menu. Right-click on the slide in the “Slides” window and in the menu that appears, left-click “Delete Slide”:

You can delete a slide using the PowerPoint menu. Left-click on the slide to be deleted. Then in the “Home” menu, click on the “Delete” button.

All of the above deletion options apply to multiple slides. To select several slides, you need to press the Ctrl key on the keyboard and, without releasing it, select the slides that you want to delete with the left mouse button. Next, apply one of the removal methods listed above.
If there are a lot of slides, then it is not convenient to work in normal mode. It makes sense to switch to slide sorter mode. Menu "View" - "Slide Sorter". In this mode, it is more convenient to perform group operations on slides.

Moving and copying slides

If after creating a presentation there is a need to change the order of slides, then this procedure is not difficult. You need to hover your mouse over the slide you want to move and click left. Press and hold the mouse button to move the slide to the desired location. The place where the slide will be inserted is marked with a line. At the right place, the mouse button is released and the slide appears in the desired position:

You can use the Ctrl key to move multiple slides. Press it and, without releasing the left mouse button, mark the slides needed to move. After selecting the desired slides, release the Ctrl key. Left-click on any of the selected slides and, without releasing, move to the desired location. If you are working with big amount slides, it is more convenient to use the “Slide Sorter” mode (see description above).

Drag and drop can be replaced by a combination of the “Cut” - “Paste” operations or the key combination “Ctrl+X” (cut) and “Ctrl+V” (paste).

1. Also, select the required slide or group of slides. In the “Home” menu, click “Cut”, or the key combination “Ctrl + X”.

2. By clicking the left mouse button, indicate the place where you want to move the slides.

3. In the “Home” menu, click “Insert”, or the key combination “Ctrl + C”.

When creating a presentation in PowerPoint program from the MS Office package, sometimes it happens that one slide or several turn out to be superfluous and need to be removed from the project. This article is intended to help you complete this task correctly. You'll learn how to remove slides individually and selectively in groups.

Before you start editing...

If the picture layout panel does not appear in the PowerPoint window, open the View tab and click to set the format to Normal.

Standard removal

In the column, right-click on the image you want to remove from the presentation. In the context menu, click the “Delete...” command.

Delete a group

To remove slides from a presentation that are consecutive in a column, follow these steps:

1. Hold down the Shift key and left-click on the first image of the group, and then on the last one. For example, to delete pictures 6, 7 and 8 in one click, you need to mark only the 6th and 8th (that is, mark the boundaries of the group to be deleted).

2. Right-click on the selected pictures and click the delete option.

1. While holding down the Ctrl key, left-click on unnecessary images in a collumn.

2. Open the context menu (right-click) and select the “Delete slide” command.

How to recover a deleted image?

If you mistakenly removed a picture, to return it to the project, click the “left arrow” button in the top panel or press the “Ctrl+Z” key combination.

Once you run this feature, PowerPoint will undo the last operation you performed (in in this case this is deletion). The slide will reappear in the column.

How to move?

To change the order of slides in a project, do this:

1. Place your cursor over the picture you want to move.

2. Hold down the left mouse button and move the picture to the desired location in the column field. Press the left button.

Enjoy your work in PowerPoint!