Selecting slides

There are two ways you can select a single or multiple slides in a presentation:
1) Using the Slides pane in Normal view.
2) Using Slide Sorter view.
The selected slide is simply the one that is displayed.

Using the Slide Pane in Normal View

You can select a single slide by clicking on it with the mouse.

It is possible to use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select multiple slides while in this view although only one slide will ever be displayed.
Shift and click last slide (first and last)

Using the Slide Sorter view

You can select a single slide by clicking on it with the mouse
This view is more appropriate to selecting multiple slides.

To select multiple slides which are continuous select the first slide, hold down the Shift key and select the last slide in the group.
To select multiple slides which are not continuous hold down the Ctrl key and click on each slide.
All the slides that are currently selected will have a black border around them.

Important

You can cancel any selection made by clicking off the current selection.