How to delete a slide in PowerPoint

You may have to delete a slide or two when managing your presentation.

There are two ways you can delete a slide:

  • Use the Delete Slide function
  • Cut the slide to the clipboard

We will show you in simple, step-wise instructions how to use both methods.

Let us begin.


Method #1: Use the Delete Slide function

Step #1: Open your presentation.

Open the PowerPoint presentation from where you would like to delete a slide.

Step #2: Change to Normal View

Click on the View tab on the top menu bar to change the ribbon.

Under Presentation Views, click on the Normal icon.

This opens thumbnails of all slides in the left-side pane.

Step #3: Delete the slide

Click on and select the thumbnail slide you want to delete.

Right-click on the selected slide to open a menu,

Click on Delete Slide to delete the selected slide.

PowerPoint will remove the selected slide from the thumbnails.


Method #2: Cut the slide to the clipboard

Step #1: Open your presentation.

Open the PowerPoint presentation from where you would like to delete a slide.

Step #2: Change to Normal View

Click on the View tab on the top menu bar to change the ribbon.

Under Presentation Views, click on the Normal icon.

This opens thumbnails of all slides in the left-side pane.

Step #3: Cut the slide to the clipboard

Click on and select the thumbnail slide you want to delete.

Click on the Home tab in the top menu bar to change the ribbon.

Under section Clipboard, click on the Cut icon.

PowerPoint removes the selected slide from the thumbnails to the clipboard.

You can paste the cut slide from the clipboard to anywhere else in your presentation.


Conclusion

We have shown you two methods of removing a slide from a PowerPoint presentation. Use the method most suitable to you.

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