From the course: PowerPoint 2019 Essential Training

Add, remove, and rearrange slides

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Add, remove, and rearrange slides

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- [Instructor] Let's add some slides. I'll be adding just some basic text, because right now I'm focusing on how you can manipulate the slides themselves. I'll title this first slide by clicking inside the text placeholder and titling it slide one. I can click once, the placeholder text disappears, and I can just start typing. I don't have to hit the enter key. I can just click anywhere outside of this text box to deselect it. You'll notice that it instantly updates the thumbnail on the left. Also notice that the text of this placeholder below doesn't show up on the thumbnail over here. Placeholder text is only visible in the final presentation when you add your own text. To add a new slide, I can click the icon in new slide on the home ribbon tab or hit control M on my keyboard. You'll notice that the placeholder text boxes are a little bit different. PowerPoint will assume that the first slide is going to be a title for your presentation and the rest of them will be content. I'll click inside and call this one slide two. If I click new slide again, I'll get a slide with the text box placeholders in the same spot, but I can create a new slide with a different layout by clicking the down arrow next to new slide right below it. Here I can choose a different content placeholder. All of these content placeholder layouts are available for me to use. I'll do a section header. Click inside the text placeholder once. I can call this one slide three. I can also click in between these slides. If I click in between, this orange horizontal bar will tell me where the slide will be inserted. If I click new slide again, it's gonna use the same layout that was in the previous slide above it. Let's call this one slide 2.5. Now that we have some slides, I may decided that there's a better order for them. I can click and hold my mouse button down, drag it to a new spot, and let go when it's in the right place. If you've worked hard on the design of one slide, and you need a similar one, but with a slight change, maybe a different color or text, you can duplicate a slide. Right-click on that slide and choose duplicate slide. Now you have an identical one and you can make changes to just that one. You can even drag it around and rearrange it just like you could with any other slide. If you have a lot of slides, sometimes it's easier to get a birds-eye view if your presentation. On the very bottom of the screen, click the grid icon. This is going to take you into something called slide sorter view. It's a much larger view of your slides. And from here, you can drag them around, move them anywhere you want, and rearrange any slide in your presentation. To go back to normal view, click the icon directly to the left of that on the bottom of the screen. You may want to get a larger view of these thumbnail icons. At anytime, hover your mouse of the vertical line, and you can drag it to the right to make it just a bit bigger. Finally, you can even make changes to multiple slides all at once by selecting a slide, hitting the control key, and selecting other slides. If the slides are next to each other in the view, you can hold down the shift key, and select them all at once. Finally, if you want to discard a slide or multiple slides, you can right-click and choose delete slide. And now we're back to where we were when we started, but a good foundation to build a presentation. I can remove this text by deleting it with my mouse, deselecting the slide, and we're right back to where we started.

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