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Lesson 6 - Deleting the Slide

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How to Delete a slides?


There is no need of extra and unwanted slides in presentation, so it’s good to delete them. There are some steps you need to follow to delete an unwanted slides –

  1. 1. Go to the thumbnail preview panel and select the slide you wish to delete.
  2. 2. Right click on mouse and select a Delete command.
  3. 3. The selected slide will deleted from your presentation.


There is one more simple method to delete an unwanted slides from your presentation. Select the slide from thumbnail panel on left side and simply hit the Delete key. Selected slide will be deleted.


Slide Layout –


Layout simply defines as the way in which the part of something are arranged. When we talk about Slide layout we simply means the pre-defined or organized position of text, picture or clipart in a slide, which help us to save our time in formatting the slides. Different layout have different position of text, graphics, pictures, etc. based on user uses.


Here are the images of some slide layout –


You can select the layout of your slide at the time of inserting it. If you want to change the layout of slide after inserting or after competing it. It can be done with the given steps –

  • 1. Go to your current working slide, and right click on it.
  • 2. Click on layout command.
  • 3. Select any layout of your choice.
  • 4. Slide layout will transform to new one with written content.

Second method to change the slide layout is, first select the desired slide from the Thumbnail section. After selecting, right click on it and click on layout command. A list of slide layout will open choose any layout of your choice and click on it. The layout of your selected slide will be changed.



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Course Lesson -

Introduction to PowerPoint, Starting PowerPoint, What is a Slide, Duplicate and Rearrange Slides, Slide Background/Indent and Tabs, Delete Slides and Slide Layout, Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbons in PowerPoint, Text Alignment and Pictures, What is a Template, Themes in PowerPoint, Saving Your Presentation, View Your Presentation

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