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Alright. In the previous module we looked at how to, actually at the very end of the previous module we looked at how to delete some of the slides from our presentation and that is one way certainly that you can organize the slides in your presentation. You just select one and you delete it. Now again, you can have the undo as well and you can do that through the edit menu, but the other way to organize slides is to use the navigator view as I'm showing you here and you click and you drag. It's really pretty simple stuff. So if you decide that that slide needs to go after the pictures or before or you want to move groups of them you can hold down the command key and do this. It's pretty straightforward to do. So again, that's select, click and drag and that's it. So is that the whole section on organizing slides? Well, not exactly. That's the basic stuff. Some more sophisticated stuff as far as organization goes like this. Let's say that this is the opening of your presentation here and maybe you talk for an hour or four hours or the entire day you've got one slideshow presentation. Now, let's say that you typically, maybe you modify your base presentation for multiple audiences, but there's certain sections that don't change or certain sections that are relevant. Well, you can organize your slideshows into different sections. So let's say again, we have this introductory section and we have a huge two-slide introductory section here. But we've got, you know, a couple slides that aren't going to change and maybe, as I go to different audiences I'll put different pictures in and so on and so on. You get the idea. I can hit the tab key on a slide and when I do so, I make this slide a sub-slide of whatever slide is above it and I can do that for multiple slides as well. So I can even make subsections of subsections. And again, hold down shift and hit tab to undo that behavior to move that slide towards the left in an outline type of view. So again, let's say that these three slides are the opening section. I could then collapse them and expand them with this arrow here and then just focus on the slides that I need to change. During presentation, that won't change a thing. These slides will still show, although I can also change that as well. If I got to the slide menu, I can skip the slide. So notice what happens here. I've got a slide there. That slide will show during the presentation, that slide won't. Skip that slide during the presentation. Now, I can go back to the slide menu, don't skip the slide and bingo, we are back in business. So that's one thing you can do to help you organize your slides. Another way that you can organize your slides is you can go to the light table and that'll show you your slides in this type of view and again, your option is just to click and drag so you might get a better, if you're presentation is especially visual in nature, a lot of pictures and stuff, maybe you can rearrange things so they have a better flow, a better feel editing wise so they can help make the presentation more effective. So it's another way that you have to organize your slides. Yet another way is to use the outline view and the outline view mostly puts the focus on the text that's in the slide. Now, a lot of times in the outline view, you might even have something like this where you really focus on, again, the, the content or the words that are in the slide. Now, I don't, one of the reasons why I don't really recommend this too much is because I don't think it's a very good habit to think of your slides as words. They are pictures. Even if they have text in them, they're really pictures to help augment your presentation. So people don't want to read slides. They want to read, if they want to read, give them a Pages document, you know? Give them something you typed up, but generally speaking, you don't want to focus on too much on the text. You just want the text to help you really as much as anyone think of your speaking points and to lead your audience from one point to the next. If there's a lot of stuff in your outline, you may want to rethink your presentation. At any rate, that's kind of a side topic, but certainly I want you to make effective, good presentations. Now, how can you use this outline view to help you organize? Well, once again, you can click and you can drag around. Something else you can do, by the way, is you can combine slides. So if you're looking in your outline here and you think you know what? These things really need to be in a single slide. Click and drag and look what I did there. Now, again, that's probably not a technique that you're going to use that often, but it is there for you if you just think well, this is not going to make any sense to have it there. I need to have this particular point or this discussion, you know, it really needs to be, it really belongs right there. So I do it there and depending on where I let go of my mouse, it'll either put it in line with the existing list or it'll indent it as it did right there and again, remember, if you mess things up you always have the command Z to undo your selection. So again, there's the outline view. You can demote slides from here as well. I just hit the tab key and slide changes will be lost if you've made any and I've been making a lot, but any rate, you have the same options with tab and shift tab that you do when you're dealing with the navigator. But for the most part, I think you're going to be dealing with the navigator view probably 80 to 90 percent of the time.