There may be times when you want to use a subset of slides for a presentation, or perhaps need to hide a single slide because it contains information not appropriate to a particular audience. For example, you may choose not to show a management benefits slide when making a presentation about benefits to non-managers. In that case, you can easily hide the slide, give the presentation, and then unhide it.
Click a slide to select it. If you wish to hide more than one slide, hold down Ctrl and click additional slides to select them.
Click the Hide Slide button in the Setup group to hide all selected slides.A gray box appears over the slide number indicating it is hidden and will not appear when you run the presentation.
With the Slide Sorter view displayed, click the slide or slides you want to unhide.
In the Slide Show tab, click the Hide Slide button in the Setup group. The gray box disappears from around the slide number. The slide will now appear when you run the presentation.
Try This!
Try printing a presentation that includes hidden slides. When you display the Print dialog box, you can click the Print Hidden Slides checkbox in the Print dialog box so slides you’ve hidden will be included in the print out.
See Also
For more information about printing presentations with hidden slides, see "Choose Which Slides to Print".