How to Select Multiple or All Slides in Your PowerPoint Presentation

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When you’re creating a slideshow in Microsoft PowerPoint, you may want to take an action on more than one slide. We’ll show you how to select all slides in PowerPoint, along with multiple slides, so you can move, delete, or rearrange them easily.

Select All Slides in PowerPoint

You don’t have to select slides one-by-one to perform an action on them all. You can select all slides in your PowerPoint presentation a couple of different ways on Windows and Mac.

In order to select slides, you’ll need to use either Normal or Slide Sorter view. You can choose either option in theViewtab.

Note: If the above action selects elements on a single slide, like text boxes or placeholders, rather than all of the slides in Normal view, be sure to pick a slide in the sidebar before using Select All.

Select Multiple Slides in PowerPoint

If you want to perform an action on multiple PowerPoint slides, but not all of them, this is just as easy on both Windows and Mac.

Just like selecting all slides, you’ll need to use Normal or Slide Sorter view to select a group of slides.

You can select multiple adjacent or non-adjacent slides using a keyboard shortcut in PowerPoint on Windows.

Select multiple adjacent slides: Choose the first slide, hold theShiftkey, and choose the last slide in the group. For example, to select slides one through five, choose slide one, holdShift, and choose slide five.

Select multiple non-adjacent slides: Choose the first slide, hold theCtrlkey, and then choose each remaining slide. In the screenshot below, you can see we selected slides one, three, and five.

Tip: If you have numerous slides in your presentation and want to select the majority of them, use the steps at the beginning to select all slides. Then, holdCtrlas you choose the slides you don’t want to deselect them.

Like on Windows, you can select multiple adjacent or non-adjacent slides using a keyboard shortcut in PowerPoint on Mac.

Select multiple adjacent slides: Choose the first slide, hold theShiftkey, and choose the last slide in the group.

Select multiple non-adjacent slides: Choose the first slide, hold theCommandkey, and then choose each remaining slide. As you can see below, we selected all odd numbered slides.

Tip: To select many slides, you can use the same Tip as above for Windows. Select all of the slides and then holdCommandto deselect each specific slide you don’t want.

For more, look at how towork with the Slide Master in PowerPoint.

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