Slide numbers in your Google Slide Presentation are useful in helping you navigate. They can also help you refer to a particular slide. Sometimes you may want to remove the slide numbers from all or a few slides. This tutorial shows you how to add and remove slide numbers in Google Slides.
Let us begin.
How to Add Slide Numbers in Google Slides
You can add slide numbers to all the slides, or to all the slides except the title slide, or to a few specific slides.
Step #1: Open your Google Slides presentation
Open your presentation from the Google Slides home screen at slides.google.com.
Step #2: Add the slide numbers
Click on Insert in the main menu.
Click on Slide numbers from the dropdown menu that opens.
The Slide numbers dialog box opens.
Select the On option and click the Apply button.
Slide numbers are added in the bottom right corner of each slide.
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Check the Skip title slides checkbox and then click the Apply button. All the slides are numbered except the title slide.
Adding slide numbers to selected slides only
First, in the navigation pane on the left, select the slides to which you want to add slide numbers.
To select one slide, click it.
To select adjacent slides, select the first slide, hold down the Shift key and select the last slide.
A yellow border surrounds each selected slide.
To select non-adjacent slides, first select the first slide. Then hold down the Ctrl key (Command on Mac) and click each non-adjacent slide to select it.
A yellow border surrounds each selected non-adjacent slide.
Click on Insert in the main menu.
Click on Slide numbers from the dropdown menu that opens.
On the Slide numbers dialog box, select the On option and click the Apply to selected button.
Slide numbers are applied only to the selected slides.
How to Remove Slide Numbers in Google Slides
You can remove slide numbers from all slides at once or from one slide at a time.
To remove slide numbers from all slides, from the Insert menu, click on Slide numbers.
Note: It is not necessary to select the slides first.
In the Slide numbers dialog box, select the Off option and click the Apply button.
Slide numbers are removed from all the slides.
To remove slide numbers from individual slides, click the slide number. Its container text box is activated.
Select the number contained in the text box and press the Delete key.
You can also select the text box and press the Delete key or Backspace key. This deletes the text box together with the slide number.
The slide number is replaced with the words “Slide number.”
Note that these words only appear on the slide during editing. During the slide presentation, the text box appears blank without a slide number.
Conclusion
Slide numbers in your Google Slides are useful in helping refer to a particular slide. They also help you to know where you are in your presentation. Sometimes you may want to remove the slide numbers from all or a few slides. This tutorial explained how to add and remove slide numbers in Google Slides.