Hiding a slide, particularly one that required a lot of work and is useful in other situations, is preferable to deleting a slide in certain situations. This tutorial will have you select the slide that you want to hide, then hide it. The hidden slide will still be visible in the thumbnail panel at the left side of the window, but will not be displayed when you are viewing the presentation as a slideshow.
Hide a Selected Slide in Powerpoint 2013
Note that hiding a slide can be problematic if you have numbered your slides. The hidden slide will not display when you are viewing the slideshow, but the slide numbers will not update to accommodate for the hidden slide. So, for example, if you hide slide 3, then the slideshow will skip from slide 2 to slide 4, but the numbering will still exist as though slide 3 was a part of the slideshow. In presentations that include hidden slides, it is probably best to remove slide numbers. Step 1: Open your slideshow in Powerpoint 2013. Step 2: Click the slide that you want to hide in the thumbnail panel at the left side of the window. In this example I am hiding slide 3.
Step 3: Right-click the selected slide, then click the Hide Slide option.
You can unhide a slide by simply following these steps again. You can also hide a slide by clicking the Slide Show tab at the top of the window, then clicking the Hide Slide button in the Set Up section of the navigational ribbon.
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