If you are creating or editing a presentation on Google Slides, but can’t work out how to delete an accidental or unnecessary slide, then look no further. Just follow the simple tutorials below, in order to learn how to delete a slide on Google Slides, both via the online desktop version, and in the Android mobile app.
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How to delete a slide on Google Slides on the website
- Open your preferred browser and navigate to the Google Slides website, if prompted log-in to your Google account
- Once there, open up the presentation you’ve been working on (or begin a new one as a test-run, and create a few blank slides). Now, locate the slide(s) you wish to delete
- There are a few ways to delete your chosen slide(s)
- Scroll to and click on the undesired slide(s), now hit DEL (‘delete’) on your keyboard
- Scroll to and right-click on the undesired slide(s), from the pop-up menu, select ‘Delete’
- Scroll to and click on the undesired slide(s), from the toolbar at the top of the page, select ‘Edit’, and then from the drop-down menu, select ‘Delete’
- You have successfully deleted your undesired slide(s) from Google Slides! If you have deleted any slides by accident, see the FAQs for how to correct your mistake
How to delete a slide on Google Slides in the app
- Open up the Google Slides app on your mobile or tablet device, if prompted, log-in to your Google account
- Once there, open up the presentation you’ve been working on (or begin a new one as a test-run, and create a few blank slides). Now, double-tap on the slide(s) you wish to delete. (Scroll left and right along the bottom slide-view slider, in order to find it/them.)
- From the pop-up menu, tap on the three vertical grey dots to bring up more options
- Select Delete to delete your slide(s)
- You have successfully deleted your undesired slide(s) from Google Slides! If you have deleted any slides by accident, see the FAQs for how to correct your mistake
And that’s it! As simple as following the above four or five steps for Google Slides on the PC and app, you can delete any and all undesired, unnecessary, and unneeded slides from your presentation. And if you’ve deleted any by accident, just see what to do in the FAQs below…
Frequently asked questions
What document creation services does Google offer?
Google has dominated the online world as a search engine and email host for a long, long time now. More recently, it has begun to attract increasing popularity as a cloud-based platform for creating documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, slideshow presentations and more.
Why choose to use Google Slides?
Free, easy to use, accessible, and open to anyone with an internet connection (be they desktop PC users or mobile entrepreneurs), it is easy to see why you might turn to Google to conduct your next online presentation, for example. Furthermore, the fact that Google Slides is all online (cloud-based) means you can quickly and easily share your presentation with anyone you need to, be it for them to edit, review, or use. So long as you both have access to the internet, you can share and work on presentations together with minimal effort, and no money spent.
What if I delete a Google Slide slide by accident?
If you’ve accidentally deleted a Google Slide slide, then so long as you catch the accident early enough, you can recover the deleted slide by a simple ‘undo’ action; either by pressing CTRL + Z together on your keyboard or by hitting the backward-facing ‘undo’ arrow icon in the app/on the website itself. If you’ve accidentally deleted a few slides, repeat this action until you see that your desired slides have returned to the presentation.
