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Group your slides into common concepts or thoughts to help build your storyline, as well is quickly move all of the slides within that group to a new area of your presentation.
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Quick reference
Topic
Grouping slides with sections.
When to use
To consolidate slides into groups of ideas supporting your storyboard.
Instructions
- To insert a section, click anywhere in the Slides Pane or Slide Sorter View:
- On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the Section button.
- On or between slides right click and select the menu item Add Section.
- To rename a Section, select the Section header and:
- Right-click and select the Rename Section option, or
- Press F2 on the keyboard.
- To add new slides within a Section simply add the new slide under the Section name.
- Slides can be dragged from within one Section into another Section with the pointer.
- An entire Section can be moved by dragging the section title with the pointer and dropping at a new location.
- A collapsed Section can be expanded by double-clicking the Section title or right-clicking the Section title and selecting Expand All.
- And expanded Section can be collapsed by double-clicking the Section title or right-clicking the Section title and selecting Collapse All.
- The section can be deleted by selecting the Section title with the pointer and pressing the Delete key, or right-clicking the Section title and selecting Remove Section. The slides won’t be deleted.
- To delete a section on all slides within it right-click the selection title and select Remove Section & Slides.
Also note:
Sections allow multiple people to work on a part of a presentation within a Section. Selecting the Section title also select all slides within that Section.
Login to download- 00:03 Having worked in science a number of years I always say there is logic and order in everything around us and it should be the same when we
- 00:08 build a presentation. We’re going to look at sections and how they allow us to group slides around ideas, as well as manipulate them as a
- 00:15 group or individually. So in this particular storyboard I’m going to start by identifying “the pain”-so I right click, add section menu item-we
- 00:26 get a default section immediately as well as an untitled section. So right click on the section title and select Rename, and I will call that “the
- 00:36 pain”. So that’s the first part of my storyboard- the second part is to quantify the impact so right click, rename, and type in “impact”. The value of
- 00:47 this is really demonstrated in the slide sorter view. We can click on a section title and when I do it highlights all of the slides in that section.
- 00:55 This is really handy if you have a presentation with lots of slides that you need to be able to manipulate as groups of slides. I can click the
- 01:03 little collapse button beside the section title and minimize them or I can select the particular section and move it around. I can also maximise
- 01:12 them and move them around to new locations. On the right click I get the menu item to remove the section and slides or all sections. I can also
- 01:25 expand all if I wish and it's also very easy to move slides around within sections and between sections which is really useful. I can even right
- 01:35 click within slide sorter view and add a new slide within a particular section-and so our storyboard can be built up very quickly in this particular
- 01:44 view. Note that in slideshow mode, when you play your presentation, PowerPoint will automatically show the first slide in the next
- 01:52 section after the last slide in the previous section. So sections are no barriers to slide movement in a slideshow. Sections are such a
- 02:01 valuable tool to group and consolidate your slides into thoughts and ideas. They are easy to create and manipulate, and you can give them
- 02:08 titles so that they represent groups of ideas. And when you run your slideshow no one will see the sections which is even better. So they’re
- 02:16 well exploring and it’s a feature in PowerPoint that I really love and I use all of the time.
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