Organize Slides
Reorder, duplicate and delete slides, or remove all hidden slides
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About Organize Slides
Reorders, deletes and duplicates the slides of a PowerPoint presentation (.pptx), and can remove all the hidden slides in one go. Drag the slide pictures into the order you want, copy a slide, or remove the ones you do not need. The new file is a real presentation: the slide master, layouts and theme stay as they were, every slide keeps its notes, pictures, charts and tables, and what only a deleted slide used (its notes page, pictures and charts) is taken out of the file.
A copy of a slide gets its own copy of the notes and of any chart on it; pictures are shared, so a copy adds almost nothing to the file size. Comments are not copied. A link that jumped to a slide you deleted loses the link and keeps its text, and links to slides you kept still work after they move. Section names cannot survive a reorder, so they are dropped when you change the order (deleting alone keeps them). Old .ppt files: open them in PowerPoint and save as .pptx first.
- How do I reorder, delete and duplicate slides?
- Drop your .pptx and every slide appears as a picture. Drag a picture to a new place, or use its arrow buttons, which also work from the keyboard. The copy button duplicates a slide and the bin deletes it. Remove hidden slides deletes every slide that is hidden when presenting, in one click. Nothing changes in your file until you press Make new presentation.
- What does a duplicate keep?
- A copy of a slide gets its own copy of the speaker notes and of any chart on it, so you can edit the copy without touching the original. Pictures are shared, so a copy adds almost nothing to the file size. Comments are not copied.
- Do links between slides still work after I reorder?
- Yes. A link from one slide to another follows the slide to its new place. A link that jumped to a slide you deleted loses the link and keeps its text.
- Why did my section names disappear?
- PowerPoint cannot keep a list of sections that disagrees with the order of the slides, so the section names are dropped when you reorder or duplicate, and the tool tells you. If you only delete slides, the sections stay.
- Is anything uploaded?
- No. The slides are drawn and the new presentation is built in your browser tab.
How to use Organize Slides
Drop a .pptx file. Every slide appears as a picture with its number and title; hidden slides are marked. Drag slides into a new order, or use the arrow buttons on each slide. The copy button duplicates a slide, the bin deletes it, and Remove hidden slides deletes all the hidden ones at once. A line above the grid says what will change. Press Make new presentation, check the result slide by slide in the preview, and download. Undo all changes puts everything back.
When to use it
Useful when you inherit a deck and need it in a different order, when you want to drop the slides you will not present, when one slide should appear twice (a section divider, a recap), or before sending a deck to someone who should not get the hidden slides.
When not to use it
If you want to take some slides out as a new file and keep the original whole, use Split PowerPoint. To combine slides from different decks, use Merge PowerPoint. To remove notes or comments, use Clean PowerPoint for Sharing. Editing the content of a slide needs PowerPoint itself.
Tips for best results
Delete first, then reorder; the line above the grid keeps count of what you have changed. Use the keyboard arrows on the buttons when dragging is awkward on a phone. A deleted slide’s notes, pictures and charts are removed from the file too, so deleting slides can also make the file smaller.
Limitations
Section names are dropped when the order changes, because PowerPoint cannot keep sections that disagree with the slide order. A copy of a slide does not carry the original’s comments. A link to a slide you deleted loses the link and keeps its text. The pictures of slides are drawn by this site’s own renderer, so they are close to, but not always identical to, what PowerPoint shows, and the arrangement itself is not affected by that.
Privacy
The slides are drawn and the new presentation is built inside your browser tab, so the file is not uploaded. A request that counts the use goes to this site when you download and carries no part of your file.
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