Be Prepared with Hidden Slides

When you prepare your presentation, you want to anticipate any difficult questions that might come up and have slides ready to answer them. If your slides contain information that you’d rather not discuss unless absolutely necessary, use the Hide Slide command (Slide Show menu) to hide them. During your presentation, you can display or skip these hidden slides at your discretion.

Hide Slide button (Slide Sorter toolbar)

Use handouts to provide information in hidden slides   If you have information that you don’t need to discuss, but want to provide to your audience in a handout, you can include the information on hidden slides and print it, but skip it during the presentation. Use hidden slides to add notes pages   If you use the Notes Page command (View menu) to produce your audience handouts, but you need more than one page of notes for a particular slide, copy your slide and paste a duplicate slide after it. Then hide the new slide, switch to notes page view, delete the slide image, and continue typing in your notes. For more information, see Create Audience Handouts and Speaker Notes.