Learn how to hide and unhide slides in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows. Hiding slides lets you do so much more.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows XP and higher
You have a secret slide with useful information that you do not want to delete. But you don’t want to show it to your audience inadvertently! What do you do? The solution is easy: you just hide the slide. Hidden slides don’t show up in Slide Show view, but they are still available to edit and to possibly unhide when you are ready to show that slide to the world.
Follow these steps to hide and unhide your slides in PowerPoint 2010:
You are not necessarily restricted to Slide Sorter view to hide or unhide slides. You can also right-click the slides within the Slides Pane, and select the Hide Slide option within the right-click menu (highlighted in red within Figure 5), or even use the Hide Slide button on the Slide Show tab of the Ribbon.
Figure 5: Hide slides from the Slides Pane
Do note that all hidden slides have diagonally strikes over the slide number in the Slides pane, and also in Slide Sorter view (highlighted in red within Figure 6).
Figure 6: Diagonal strikes indicate a hidden slide
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