If you're making a presentation in Google Slides, it can be useful to know how to show and hide slides. Here's how to do it.

Slide Layouts are templates that contain placeholders for content. This tutorial shows how to change slide layouts in Google Slides.

On your Google Slides presentation, locate the slide that you want to hide, right-click the slide, then select Skip Slide from the context menu. Now the slide is hidden. You will see a cross-out ...

When you hide slides in Google Slides, they won't show up when you present, but will still be there when you return to your slideshow's overview.