Sections in PowerPoint not only help
you easily manage your presentation slides, but there's so much more you can achieve using them. You can
add and name Sections,
move slides from one Section to another etc.
And, at any point of time after creating a Section, you can also remove it, or also remove a Section along with its content slides. You can also
remove Sections altogether in a presentation. However, there are some issues that you should be aware of, and these are explained within the steps
below:
- Open your presentation in PowerPoint 2010, within which you have already
added Sections. Change to
Slide Sorter view, as shown in Figure 1 so that
you can easily access the Sections in your presentation.
Figure 1: Presentation opened within the Slide Sorter view
- Right-click on the name of the Section to be removed, in Figure 2 you can see that we have chosen the Section named
'How to Use' for removing. Within the contextual menu that appears, you will find three options for removing the Section, as marked in
Figure 2.
Figure 2: Options to remove the selected Section
Note: Did you find that the
Remove Section option was greyed out for you, as shown
highlighted in
red within
Figure 3 below? This is possible if you have selected the first Section
within the presentation, especially when there are more Sections thereafter in the presentation.
Figure 3: Remove Section option greyed out
However, if there is only one Section in the presentation, then the
Remove Section option will be available within
the first and only Section of your presentation, as shown highlighted in
red within
Figure 4.
Figure 4: Remove Section option not greyed out
Let us explore all three options for removing the section, as marked in Figure 2, shown earlier on this page:
A. Remove Section
This option removes the selected Section. Its content slides will be added to the preceding Section, as shown in
Figure 5 (compare with Figure 1, earlier on this page).
Figure 5: Result of selecting Remove Section option
B. Remove Section & Slides
This option removes the selected Section along with all the slides contained within, as shown in
Figure 6. Since everything will be deleted in the selected Section, be careful!
Figure 6: Result of selecting Remove Section and Slides option
C. Remove All Sections
This option removes not only the selected Section, but all Sections in the presentation, resulting in only slides
with no Sections, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7: Result of selecting Remove All Sections option
- Select any option to remove Section(s) as required.
- Save your presentation often.
See Also:
Removing Sections in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
Removing Sections in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Removing Sections in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
