As with anything you write, part of the process of building a PowerPoint presentation is revising and refining it as you go along. Just as you edit a report by deleting or copying a sentence, in a PowerPoint presentation you might delete a slide or copy it so you can base a new slide on existing contents. It’s also typical to rearrange the flow of your thoughts as you write. In PowerPoint that’s as easy as moving a slide around in your presentation. All of these tasks are simple to do in the Slide Sorter view.
Caution
If you delete a slide and save changes to your presentation, that slide is gone forever. Be sure you don’t need any of a slide’s contents before you delete it.
See Also
Instead of deleting a slide, you can temporarily hide it from view. Then if you decide you need the contents later, you can simply unhide it. See "Hide and Unhide Slides" later in this section for help with this feature.
Tip
You can also use keystroke shortcuts to cut and paste selected slides. Note that keystroke shortcuts are displayed in the super tooltips that appear when you hold your mouse over an item on the ribbon. Use Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+V to paste, and Ctrl+C to copy.
See Also
Use the procedures here to cut, copy, and paste whole slides. For more about cutting, copying, and pasting specific elements from the contents of slides, see "Cut, Copy, and Paste Text".
Tip
You can use the Outline tab in Normal view to move slides around in text form. Right-click a slide icon and choose Move Up or Move Down to move a slide one position at a time, or drag the icon and drop it in any other position in the outline.
See Also
For more about managing slides in the Outline tab, see "Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline".