A group of slides often needs to move together: a worked example, a three-part explanation, or an appendix. Moving the slides as a block is easier to verify than repeatedly dragging individual slides and reconstructing their sequence afterward. The key is checking both the selection and its destination.
Identify the complete block
Open the deck on a computer and examine the filmstrip. Find the first and last slides belonging to the section. Include any introductory or concluding slide that the explanation depends on. A slide with a matching background is not necessarily part of the same argument, so read its title and content.
Move the selected slides
Click a thumbnail and use Shift when selecting the additional slides you want to move. Once the correct thumbnails are highlighted, drag the selection to the intended position in the filmstrip. Google Slides supports reordering multiple selected slides together.
Pause after the move instead of immediately editing the text. Compare the new sequence with your intended outline. If the selection or location was wrong, undo the move promptly and select the correct block before trying again.
Review the joins
Check the slide before the moved block and the slide after it. References such as “as shown earlier,” agenda labels, and section numbering may now need editorial changes even when the slide movement succeeded. Rehearse the transition between sections to catch unexplained jumps. Reordering changes the deck’s sequence; it does not automatically rewrite your spoken transitions or confirm that a separately distributed PDF now matches the revised presentation.
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