Office 2007 Bible

Hiding Slides for Backup Use

You may not always want to show every slide that you have prepared. Sometimes it pays to prepare extra data in anticipation of a question that you think someone might ask, or to hold back certain data unless someone specifically requests it.

By hiding a slide, you keep it filed in reserve, without making it a part of the main slide show. Then, at any time during the presentation when (or if) it becomes appropriate, you can display that slide. Hiding refers only to whether the slide is a part of the main presentation’s flow; it has no effect in any other view.

Tip

If you have only a handful of slides to hide, go ahead and hide them. However, if you have a large group of related slides to hide, consider creating a custom show for them instead.

Hiding and Unhiding Slides

A good way to hide and unhide slides is in Slide Sorter view because an indicator appears below each slide to show whether it is hidden. This way, you can easily determine which slides are part of the main presentation. In the slide thumbnail pane in Normal view, hidden slides appear ghosted out.

Follow these steps to hide a slide:

1.	Switch to Slide Sorter view.
2.	Select the slide or slides that you want to hide. Remember, to select more than one slide, hold down the Ctrl key as you click the ones that you want.
3.	Click the Hide Slide button on the Slide Show toolbar. A gray box appears around the slide number and a diagonal line crosses through it, indicating that it is hidden. ...