4. Rearranging Slides
The best way to rearrange slides is to do so in
Slide Sorter view. In this view, the slides in your presentation appear
in thumbnail view, and you can move them around on the screen to
different positions, just as you would manually rearrange pasted-up
artwork on a table. Although you can also do this from the Slides pane
in Normal view, you are able to see fewer slides at once. As a result,
it can be more challenging to move slides around, for example, from one
end of the presentation to another. To rearrange slides, use the
following steps:
Switch to Slide Sorter view.
Select the slide that you want to move. You can move multiple slides at once if you like.
Drag
the selected slide to the new location. The mouse pointer changes to a
little rectangle next to the pointer arrow as you drag. A vertical line
also appears where the slide will go if you release the mouse button at
that point, as shown in Figure 5.
Release the mouse button. The slide moves to the new location.
You can also rearrange slides in the Outline pane in
Normal view. This is not quite as easy as using Slide Sorter view, but
it's more versatile. Not only can you drag entire slides from place to
place, but you can also move individual bullets from one slide to
another.
Follow these steps to move content in the Outline pane:
Switch to Normal view and display the Outline pane.
Position the mouse pointer over the slide's icon. The mouse pointer changes to a four-headed arrow.
Click on the icon. PowerPoint selects all of the text in that slide.
Drag
the slide's icon to a new position in the outline and then release the
mouse button. All of the slide's text moves with it to the new location.
There are also keyboard shortcuts for moving a slide
up or down in the Outline pane that may be faster than clicking the
toolbar buttons. You can press the Alt+Shift+Up arrow keys to move a
slide up, and the Alt+Shift+Down arrow keys to move a slide down.
These shortcuts work equally well with
single bullets from a slide. Just click to the left of a single line to
select it, instead of clicking the Slide icon in step 3.
