Chapter 5. Editing Your Slideshow

If you want to give a great presentation, then you have to practice. But if you're like most folks, every time you fire up PowerPoint, clear your throat, and start rehearsing, you find a few places in your slideshow that need tweaking. For example, you may realize that you've duplicated information on a couple of slides. Or maybe you discover that you've forgotten to cover a critical point, or decide that a small graphic on each slide would reinforce your message. Or, worst of all, you realize that the way you've organized your content is all wrong.

In this chapter, you'll see how to make all these changes and more. You'll learn to reorder your slides as easily as you shuffle a pack of cards. You can add, delete, move, duplicate, and renumber slides, and even copy slides from other slideshows. You'll also see how to control the overall look and feel of your presentation by editing its behind-the-scenes slide masters (page 151).