Manage slides
Manage slides tests slide-level structure: adding, reusing, rearranging, grouping, hiding, and presenting subsets of slides. You need to know how layouts and placeholders interact, how Reset differs from manual formatting, and how sections and custom shows support navigation in long decks. The exam favors clean structural edits over decorative changes.
Core rules
- New Slide inserts a slide using the current layout; the Layout gallery changes the layout while preserving content where placeholders allow.
- Reset returns placeholders to the layout's position, size, and formatting; it does not delete content or change the assigned layout.
- Reuse Slides imports slides from another presentation. The Use source formatting checkbox keeps the source theme; clearing it adopts the destination theme.
- Duplicate Slide copies the slide and its content; copying and pasting between decks may carry source formatting and masters.
- Sections in Normal view or Slide Sorter group slides for navigation; sections can be collapsed, renamed, and moved, but they do not change slide order in the show.
- Hide Slide keeps a slide in the file and visible in editing views, but skips it during a normal slide show. Custom shows can include selected slides in a chosen order.
Worked example
A 40-slide deck has three product modules. Create sections named Intro, Product A, and Product B in Slide Sorter view by right-clicking before each module and choosing Add Section, then renaming. To present only Product A, create a custom show containing those slides instead of hiding every other slide. Reasoning: sections organize editing; custom shows control delivery. Hiding slides would also affect normal delivery and is harder to reverse selectively.
Traps
Using Reset when the goal is to apply a different layout; assuming Reuse Slides always keeps destination colors; treating sections as show-only filters; and forgetting that hidden slides still export unless the print or export option excludes them.