Microsoft Powerpoint has a lot of ways that you can edit slides, including an option that lets you remove a slide from a presentation.
This ability to hide slides is really useful because it means that the slide won’t be included in the presentation, but it doesn’t delete it if you are going to add it back to the slideshow at a later time.
Our tutorial will show you how to hide a slide in Powerpoint 2013 by completing a few simple steps.
How to Remove a Powerpoint Slide from a Presentation Without Deleting It
- Open the presentation.
- Find the slide that you don’t want to show.
- Right-click on the slide and choose the Hide Slide option.
Our guide continues below with additional information on how to hide a slide in Powerpoint 2013, including pictures of these steps.
Sometimes you will find that you need to make a Powerpoint presentation that will be shown to a couple of different audiences. Depending upon the makeup of those audiences, it’s possible that all of the slides in your presentation may not be relevant.
But rather than create two separate presentation files, you might find it easier to simply hide and unhide the individual slides in the slideshow as you need them.
This lets you keep your work available in case you need it, but also lets you omit information that isn’t relevant to particular groups. Our tutorial below will show you how to hide slides in Powerpoint 2013.
Check out our tutorial on how to hide a slide in Google Slides if you would like to hide slides in that application as well.
How to Hide a Single Slide in a Powerpoint Presentation (Guide with Pictures)
The steps in this article were performed in Microsoft Powerpoint 2013, but will also work in several other versions of Powerpoint. Note that hiding a slide will prevent that slide from being shown in your presentation.
Step 1: Open your slideshow in Powerpoint 2013.
Step 2: Locate the slide that you want to hide in the column of slide thumbnails at the left side of the window.
Step 3: Right-click on the slide that you wish to hide, then select the Hide slide option.
Note that hidden slides will still be shown in the column of slides. However, that slide number will have a slash through it.
You can unhide a slide by right-clicking it, then selecting the Hide slide option again.
Now that you know how to hide a slide in Powerpoint 2013, you will be able ot control which slides in your presentation are being shown to your current audience without needing to manage multiple similar presentation files.
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