Presentations - Slide Sorter

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Adding, moving and removing slides

A useful tool in PowerPoint is the Slide Sorter view. This and other views are available from the View menu. They can be more quickly accessed using the tiny icons at the bottom left of the screen, near the Start button.

They’re pretty small! The Normal view will usually be highlighted. The middle one is the Slide Sorter view and the right hand icon gives a Preview of the slide in a Slide Show.

The Slide Sorter view shows miniature slides on the screen. These can be dragged around to change the order. You can copy slides by clicking on one to select it then using Ctrl+C or Copy. Then click a space between two slides (or at the beginning or end) and use Ctrl+V or Paste. This can be useful if you have a particular slide content that you’d like to re-use with just slight changes.

Deleting a slide is simply a matter of selecting it and hitting the delete button.

You can add a new slide too in this view but you’ll need to return to normal view to work on it.

Double clicking on any slide in Slide Sorter view will return it to Normal view.

Several slides can be selected at once by using one of the following techniques:

To select a continuous group of slides: select the first in the series then hold the shift key down and click on the last in the series. You should find that the required group gets selected.
To select a number of slides that do not appear next to each other: click on one the old the Ctrl key down while you click on the others you need. This selects them individually.

(This technique can be used in other Windows folders and many other displays of lists of files. Unfortunately, it still isn’t something you can do in Microsoft Word, where it could be particularly useful!)

The sort of changes you may want to make this way could be to backgrounds, slide layout (applying a new layout to the group) or to animation schemes and transitions.