How to Delete Multiple Slides on PowerPoint?

PowerPoint presentations can have hundreds of slides. With the slight change in topics, you might have to delete the first 20 slides. Don’t you think that deleting 20 slides one by one will take time? There is a way to delete multiple slides on PowerPoint.

Delete Multiple Slides on PowerPoint

If you accidentally delete any slide or slides, there is an option to undo the last steps. For important and sensitive presentations, it is better to make copy of the presentation. Even if you make mistakes with the slides, you always have the original one available for future use.

For a PowerPoint presentation, you might want to delete multiple random slides, say slides 1,4,7,18,34, and many others. Sometimes, you might want to delete a sequence of slides, say from slide 5 to slide 13. There are two different professional ways to delete multiple slides or delete slides in a sequence.

Delete Multiple Slides in the Presentation

To delete multiple random slides in PowerPoint, follow these simple steps.

1. Open your PowerPoint presentation, and in Normal view, press and hold the CTRL button on your keyboard.
2. Select the slides from the left thumbnail pane that you want to delete
3. Keep the CTRL button pressed while you are selecting the slides
4. Once all slides are selected that you want to delete, release the CTRL button and press the Backspace or Delete button

Your selected slides are deleted from your presentation; in this image, slides 1, 3, 4, and 5 will be deleted. If you have accidentally deleted important slides or want to restore deleted slides, press the CTRL+Z combination or use the undo button on the top of the PowerPoint screen.

Delete a Sequence of Slides

First method is for deleting random multiple slides. How to delete slides in a sequence? How to delete slides from number 1-10 in one go? There is no need to select every slide using the above method. Here is how to delete multiple files in a sequence.

1. Open your PowerPoint presentation. Press and hold the SHIFT button on your keyboard
2. Hold the SHIFT button and select the starting slide, and then the last slide that you want to delete.
3. If you want to delete all slides from 1-10, click on the slide on the thumbnail and then slide 10
4. Release the SHIFT button and press Delete or Backspace

All slides from 1-10 are removed from your PowerPoint presentation. Same undo and restore features also work for this method. This is easier way to delete slides in a sequence.

How to Delete a Slide in PowerPoint?

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Now, you want to delete a single slide. Deleting a slide in PowerPoint is quite easy like deleting a file or image from your computer’s folder. Here is how to delete a slide in PowerPoint:

1. Open your PowerPoint presentation and select the slide thumbnail from the left pane
2. Press the Delete or Backspace button on your keyboard to delete the slide
3. You can also delete the slide with a right click and then the “Delete Slide” option

For your custom PowerPoint presentations and other templates, the methods to delete single or multiple slides are the same.

How to Add, Move, and Hide Slides in PowerPoint?

These are the pretty simple functions in the PowerPoint and most users already know about these tasks. For our new readers who are not familiar with the PowerPoint and its functions, these basics guides can be quite helpful.

How to Add a Slide in PowerPoint?

It is easy to add a new slide to a PowerPoint presentation. When you add a new slide under a specific slide, the same theme as the parent slide is usually copied to the new slide. Here are the simple steps to add a new slide to PowerPoint:

1. Open your presentation and right-click on the slide under which you want to add a new slide
2. Click on “New Slide” from the menu or click on the “New Slide” button from the top menu

How to Move Slides in PowerPoint?

You can rearrange slides in PowerPoint and move slides as per your requirements. Moving slides will change their positioning in the presentation. You can move slide 4 to number 2 or any other slide to any other position. Simply select the slide and drag it to the position where you want to move it.

How to Hide Slides in PowerPoint?

You might want to hide a specific slide in a PowerPoint presentation for any reason. Hiding a slide in a presentation will not delete the slide or contents, but the number will be crossed, and the hidden slide will not appear in the slideshow. Here is how to hide a slide in PowerPoint:

1. Open your presentation, select the slide that you want to hide, and choose “Hide” from the menu with right click
2. Your selected slide will be crossed and if you want to unhide the slide, repeat the same process and slide will be visible in slideshow

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Conclusion

The process of removing or deleting multiple slides in a presentation is similar to deleting one slide. Many users just don’t try different options because they stick to what they have learned. The best way to learn PowerPoint or any other tool is to experiment with different options.