Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

chapter 16: advanced powerpoint 609

Hiding slides

There may be times when you want to hide a slide from view without actually delet-

ing it. The slide needs more work, for example, or it’s not appropriate for a certain

audience. There are a couple of ways to go about preventing a slide from showing up

in slide shows. First, you can select the slide you want to hide and then select Slide

Show→Hide Slide. You can also use the Slide Sorter view to hide slides by selecting

the slides you want to hide and then clicking the Hide Slide button in the Slide

Sorter toolbar. (If that toolbar isn’t visible, choose View→Toolbars→Slide Sorter.)

PowerPoint simply skips over hidden slides when you run the slide show.

To bring a hidden slide back into view, Control-click it in Slide Sorter view and

select Hide Slide to turn off the checkmark.

Multimedia Effects

PowerPoint puts at your disposal a Spielbergian selection of special effects. In addi-

tion to the transitions you insert between slides, the program lets you animate par-

ticular elements in an image. It also enables you to add a soundtrack or voice narra-

tion to your slide show—features that are especially useful if you want to save the

presentation as a stand-alone movie.

Adding Animations

One of the simplest ways to jazz up a PowerPoint presentation is to animate an

element in a slide—be it text, an image, or even a movie. Animated objects whisk

into view ...