Making a presentation is like crafting a story. Sometimes your slides will lead your audience beautifully from one idea to another. Sometimes? You glance at your slides and decide you have too many of them and they clutter your message or an entire section that just no longer fits. Deleting one or two slides is no big deal, but deleting half your slides is laborious.
Fortunately, Google Slides has a clever method that makes it easy to handle your presentation. All you have to do is click the mouse just a few times, and that clutter will start melting away, thereby centering your presentation on the message that matters. Throughout this guide, we demonstrate the fastest way to delete multiple slides and keep your presentation sharp and to the point. Ready to take control of your slides? Let’s get started!
Why Delete Multiple Slides at Once?
As you compose your presentation, you may want to remove excess slides or those that tell the reader absolutely nothing as part of your story. If you have a long talk, it’s a challenging process in which you individually delete each slide. Here’s a very simple guide on how to delete multiple slides at one time:
Step 1: Open Your Google Slides Presentation
Open the presentation for deletion of multiple slides. You can reach it either by using Google Drive or directly within Google Slides itself.
Step 2: Switch to Slide Sorter View
Once you have the presentation open you are able to switch over to slide sorter view. You’re in this view you see all the slides laid out as a grid so it’s easier to click on several slides to delete at once.
- Switching views: Use the “View” option at the top and click on “Grid View”.
Step 3: Choose the Slides You’d Like To Delete
In grid view, you can highlight multiple slides.
- Using Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac): To select nonadjacent slides, hold down the Ctrl key if using Windows or the Cmd key if using a Mac while selecting the slides you want to delete.
- Using Shift: If you have several slides you want to delete consecutively, click the left mouse button on the first slide, then hold down the Shift key, and click on the last slide, in the range. This will highlight all the slides between them.
Step 4: Delete the Selected Slides
You’ve now selected your slides for deletion. There are a couple of ways you can delete them:
- Keyboard Shortcut: just tap your Delete key on your keyboard.
- Right-click menu: Right-click on one of the selected slides and from the menu drop-down list, select the Delete item.
Step 5: Delete Confirmation
Immediately the slides you have deleted are gone. If you really delete a wrong set of slides, don’t panic! You can undo this using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Z for Windows or Cmd + Z for Mac computers to revert back the slide.
Tips for Proper Slide Management
Of course, deleting slides can help you clean up your presentation. Here are a few other ways to ensure your Google Slides presentation remains organized and effective:
- Organize Before You Start: Plan out your presentation before you start creating content. You will know which slides you need to make beforehand, so it is less likely that you will have to delete multiple at a later time.
- Group Slides by Theme: If you have a few topics that you are going to discuss in your presentation, try grouping them together under one heading. Then you can identify unnecessary sections and bulk them for deletion when refining the presentation.
Bonus Tip: Try using Google Slides templates to save time and effort right from the very beginning and facilitate smoother construction and refining of your presentation. Try them out!
Final Thoughts
Knowing how to delete multiple slides in Google Slides is simple knowledge that’s really very important to the people who often work on presentations. Cleaning your presentation will give you enough time to get the most out of your audience.
With these tricks in your pocket, you’re now ready to manage your slides effectively and make stunning presentations.
