How to Remove the Footer From PowerPoint Slides

You can always re-enable it later

The footer text at the bottom of your PowerPoint slides has several potential uses. It can be used as a place tonumber your slidesor as a way to place a topic or brand on the slide without distracting from the content.

However, what happens if you want to remove the footer from your PowerPoint slides? You may want to keep the slide clean from any extra content. Thankfully, you can easily remove the footer from your PowerPoint slides using the steps below.

If you want to remove the footer from your PowerPoint slides, you’ll need to access theHeader and Footermenu. This is where you can see and edit your slides’ header and footer options. You can also remove or hide other elements such as slide numbers and the date or time from your slides.

To remove the footer from your PowerPoint slides, follow these steps.

Trying to remove a footer from your slide, but it won’t disappear? If that’s the case, you’re probably trying to remove a hidden footer from a slide, without realizing that it’s applied to the slide template.

If you’re using a template that has a hidden text box in the footer, the template will override any settings you make to ensure that it remains visible. To remove this hidden footer, you’ll need to access theSlide Masterview toremove it from your template.

To remove a hidden footer from a PowerPoint slide template, follow these steps.

Editing Your PowerPoint Presentation

If you’ve decided to remove the footer from your Microsoft PowerPoint slides, you can use the steps above to help you. If you disable the footer, it’ll disappear from view, but it won’t be completely removed—you can always re-enable it afterward.

You can alsoadd new headers and footers to your PowerPoint presentationafter removing them. If you’re running out of space, you can alsoresize your PowerPoint slidesto increase your space for text and other content.

Don’t go too text-heavy, though. You may want to consider adding other visual elements, like aYouTube video, instead.

Ben Stockton is a freelance technology writer based in the United Kingdom. In a past life, Ben was a college lecturer in the UK, training teens and adults. Since leaving the classroom, Ben has taken his teaching experience and applied it to writing tech how-to guides and tutorials, specialising in Linux, Windows, and Android. He has a degree in History and a postgraduate qualification in Computing.Read Ben’s Full Bio

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