Understanding Presentations – Copy, move, delete slides

Copy, move slides within the presentation, between open presentations.

To copy a slide within a presentation, select the slide you want to copy from the slides pane, and then drag and drop that slide to the desired location within the presentation. Similarly, to move a slide, right-click on the desired slide from the slides pane and from the resulting menu, select ‘Cut’. Now go to the desired location where the slide needs to be moved to and then right-click there and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste’.


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Slides can also be copied between open presentations. To copy the slide, right-click on the slide from the slides pane and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Copy’. Open the new presentation where you want to copy the selected slide. Now right-click in the slides pane in this new presentation, and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste’.

To move the slide between open presentations, follow the same steps as above and Paste the slide in the other presentation.

Delete slide(s).

A slide can be deleted by simply right-clicking on the slide from the slides pane and then clicking on ‘Delete Slide’ from the resulting menu.Delete Slide 13