powerpoint hide during presentation

PowerPoint Top Contributor: John Korchok ✅

November 12, 2024

PowerPoint Top Contributor:

John Korchok ✅

Search the community and support articles
Microsoft 365 and Office
Search Community member

Ask a new question

The taskbar is always shown when in Presentation Mode in PowerPoint

When i am trying to run through my presentation in presentation mode, the taskbar is always shown at the bottom of the screen when in Presenter mode on my laptop's screen or on my monitor (when my laptop is not using it's display. If I use both my laptop and monitor to show the presentation notes on my laptop and the presentation on my monitor, the taskbar is visible on my laptop screen.

I mainly use my laptop plugged into my monitor, so when I play a presentation on my monitor (with the laptop display not being used at all) the taskbar shows while my presentation is being presented.

This has only started happening after I updated my computer.

Any help or possible temporary fixes would be greatly appreciated!

Report abuse

Reported content has been submitted

Replies (4) 

Volunteer Moderator

34 people found this reply helpful

Was this reply helpful? Yes No

Sorry this didn't help.

Great! Thanks for your feedback.

How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

Thanks for your feedback.

Independent Advisor

33 people found this reply helpful

10 people found this reply helpful

2 people found this reply helpful

Question Info

Norsk Bokmål
Ελληνικά
Русский
עברית
العربية
ไทย
한국어
中文(简体)
中文(繁體)
日本語

How-To Geek

How to hide (or un-hide) a slide in microsoft powerpoint.

Your changes have been saved

Email is sent

Email has already been sent

Please verify your email address.

You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics.

Quick Links

Hide and unhide powerpoint slides, show hidden slides during the powerpoint presentation.

You can hide slides in Microsoft PowerPoint so that they're hidden during the presentation but are still a part of the file. You can also show hidden slides during a presentation or unhide them for future presentations. Here's how.

If you give talks, it's very likely that you prepare a PowerPoint for that presentation. Depending on your audience, you may want to hide or unhide certain slides to make the presentation more relevant for that particular group.

To hide slides during a presentation, open PowerPoint and select the slide that you want to hide by clicking it. The slide will have a box around it if it's selected.

Once it's selected, right-click the slide. In the context menu, choose "Hide Slide."

The slide will now be hidden while in Presenter View. You can tell that a slide is hidden if the thumbnail is a lighter color than the other slides.

If you want to unhide the slide, simply right-click the slide and click "Hide Slide" again.

The slide will now appear during the presentation again.

If you've hidden a slide but have decided that you actually want to show it during the presentation, you can do so without ever leaving Presenter View.

During the presentation, right-click anywhere on the current slide. In the context menu that appears, select "See All Slides."

Once that's selected, all of your slides, including hidden slides, will appear in a row. Hidden slides are grayed out, and the slide number is crossed out. Click the thumbnail of the hidden slide to display it to your audience.

Once you've moved to the next slide, if you want to show the hidden slide again, repeat the above steps.

If you frequently use the same Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, the content is likely to change over time. If the content of a slide is no longer relevant, you can simply delete the slide instead of hiding it.

Related: How to Add, Delete, and Rearrange PowerPoint Slides

Microsoft Office
Microsoft PowerPoint

PRO Courses Guides New Tech Help Pro Expert Videos About wikiHow Pro Upgrade Sign In
EDIT Edit this Article
EXPLORE Tech Help Pro About Us Random Article Quizzes Request a New Article Community Dashboard This Or That Game Forums Popular Categories Arts and Entertainment Artwork Books Movies Computers and Electronics Computers Phone Skills Technology Hacks Health Men's Health Mental Health Women's Health Relationships Dating Love Relationship Issues Hobbies and Crafts Crafts Drawing Games Education & Communication Communication Skills Personal Development Studying Personal Care and Style Fashion Hair Care Personal Hygiene Youth Personal Care School Stuff Dating All Categories Arts and Entertainment Finance and Business Home and Garden Relationship Quizzes Cars & Other Vehicles Food and Entertaining Personal Care and Style Sports and Fitness Computers and Electronics Health Pets and Animals Travel Education & Communication Hobbies and Crafts Philosophy and Religion Work World Family Life Holidays and Traditions Relationships Youth
Browse Articles
Learn Something New
Quizzes Hot
Happiness Hub
This Or That Game
Train Your Brain
Explore More
Support wikiHow
About wikiHow
Log in / Sign up
Computers and Electronics
Presentation Software
PowerPoint Insertions

How to Hide a Slide in PowerPoint Presentation

Last Updated: December 18, 2023 Tested

wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 14 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. The wikiHow Tech Team also followed the article's instructions and verified that they work. This article has been viewed 121,075 times. Learn more...

Hiding a slide in PowerPoint is a good idea if you need to quickly present, and do not want to show a certain slide but do not want to necessarily delete that slide. PowerPoint makes it very easy to hide any number of slides in your presentation.

Hiding the Slide

Step 1 Open up a PowerPoint presentation.

If you have successfully selected a slide, a box will appear around that slide.

If you have successfully hid a slide, there will be a slash over the number correlated with the hidden slide.
Repeat this process to hide multiple slides.

Accessing the Hidden Slide

Choose Place in this document from the options on the left side of the pop-up window.
Select the hidden slide and click the OK button from the bottom right of the window.

Community Q&A

Once your slide is hidden during your presentation and you decide you want to go to it via another slide then include a button hyperlinked back to the slide from the one you want it on. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0