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13 Work with Slides
In this chapter, you will learn how to
✔ Add and delete slides.
✔ Add slides with ready-made content.
✔ Divide presentations into sections.
✔ Rearrange slides and sections.For each slide to accomplish its purpose, it needs to present its content in the most
effective way. The layout of individual slides and the order of slides in the presentation
contribute significantly to the logical development of your message.
In this chapter, you’ll add slides with different layouts, delete slides, and change the
layout of a slide. You’ll also divide a presentation into sections and collapse and expand
sections. Finally, you’ll rearrange slides and sections in a presentation.Practice Files Before you can complete the exercises in this chapter, you need to copy
the book’s practice files to your computer. The practice files you’ll use to complete
the exercises in this chapter are in the Chapter13 practice file folder. A complete list of
practice files is provided in “Using the Practice Files” at the beginning of this book.Adding and Deleting Slides.
When you create a presentation, you add a slide by clicking the New Slide button in
the Slides group on the Home tab. By default in a new presentation, a slide added after the
title slide has the Title And Content layout. Thereafter, each added slide has the layout of
the preceding slide. If you want to add a slide with a different layout, you can select the
layout you want from the New Slide gallery.
If you change your mind about including a slide, you can easily delete it by selecting it
either on the Slides tab of the Overview pane or in Slide Sorter view and then pressing
the Delete key. You can also right-click the slide in either the pane or the view and then
click Delete Slide. To select a series of slides, click the first slide in the series and hold
down the Shift key while you click the last slide. To select noncontiguous slides, click
the first one and hold down the Ctrl key as you click additional slides.