Rearranging Slides

You can rearrange slides in three different locations in PowerPoint. These include the

• Outline tab in Normal view

• Slides tab in Normal view

• Slide Sorter view

Select the icon of the slide you want to move and drag it to a new location. Which method is best? The Outline tab is useful if you want to read the content of your slides as you reorganize. The Slides tab is a good choice if you know exactly what you want to move and want to do it quickly. If you have major reorganization to do on your presentation, you might want to use Slide Sorter view because it provides more flexibility as well as the capability to view the contents of your slides as you rearrange them.

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If you want to do a major reorganization of a presentation that contains numerous slides, consider printing handouts with either six or nine slides per page first so that you can more easily analyze your entire presentation before making changes.

To learn more about using Slide Sorter view to organize your slides, see "Using the Slide Sorter View," later in this chapter, p. 115 .

To discover more outlining techniques, see "Moving Outline Points Up and Down" in Chapter 5, "Organizing Presentations," p. 104 .