Hiding and showing slides are two practical features in PowerPoint that allow you to control the visibility of slides during a slideshow. Hiding slides is useful when you want to skip certain slides or temporarily remove them from the presentation without deleting them. Whereas showing slides is helpful when you want to re-display the hidden slides. In this article, we will demonstrate how to hide and show slides in a PowerPoint presentation in Python using Spire.Presentation for Python.
- Hide a Specific Slide in PowerPoint in Python
- Show a Hidden Slide in PowerPoint in Python
- Show All Hidden Slides in PowerPoint in Python
Install Spire.Presentation for Python
This scenario requires Spire.Presentation for Python and plum-dispatch v1.7.4. They can be easily installed in your Windows through the following pip command.
pip install Spire.Presentation
If you are unsure how to install, please refer to this tutorial: How to Install Spire.Presentation for Python on Windows
Hide a Specific Slide in PowerPoint in Python
Spire.Presentation for Python provides the ISlide.Hidden property to control the visibility of a slide during a slideshow. If you don’t want a certain slide to be shown, you can hide this slide by setting the ISlide.Hidden property as True. The detailed steps are as follows.
- Create an object of the Presentation class.
- Load a PowerPoint presentation using Presentation.LoadFromFile() method.
- Get a specific slide using Presentation.Slides[index] property.
- Hide the slide by setting the ISlide.Hidden property as True.
- Save the resulting presentation using Presentation.SaveToFile() method.
- Python
from spire.presentation.common import *
from spire.presentation import *
# Create an object of the Presentation class
ppt = Presentation()
# Load a PowerPoint presentation
ppt.LoadFromFile("Sample.pptx")
# Get the second slide and hide it
slide = ppt.Slides[1]
slide.Hidden = True
# Save the resulting presentation to a new .pptx file
ppt.SaveToFile("HideSlide.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2016)
ppt.Dispose()
Show a Hidden Slide in PowerPoint in Python
To show a hidden slide, you can set the ISlide.Hidden property as False. The detailed steps are as follows.
- Create an object of the Presentation class.
- Load a PowerPoint presentation using Presentation.LoadFromFile() method.
- Get a specific slide using Presentation.Slides[index] property.
- Unhide the slide by setting the ISlide.Hidden property as False.
- Save the resulting presentation using Presentation.SaveToFile() method.
- Python
from spire.presentation.common import *
from spire.presentation import *
# Create an object of the Presentation class
ppt = Presentation()
# Load a PowerPoint presentation
ppt.LoadFromFile("HideSlide.pptx")
# Get the second slide and unhide it
slide = ppt.Slides[1]
slide.Hidden = False
# Save the resulting presentation to a new .pptx file
ppt.SaveToFile("ShowSlide.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2016)
ppt.Dispose()
Show All Hidden Slides in PowerPoint in Python
To show all hidden slides in a PowerPoint presentation, you need to loop through all the slides in the presentation, then find the hidden slides and unhide them by setting the ISlide.Hidden property as False. The detailed steps are as follows.
- Create an object of the Presentation class.
- Load a PowerPoint presentation using Presentation.LoadFromFile() method.
- Loop through the slides in the presentation.
- Check whether the current slide is hidden or not using ISlide.Hidden property. If the result is true, unhide the slide by setting the ISlide.Hidden property as False.
- Save the resulting presentation using Presentation.SaveToFile() method.
- Python
from spire.presentation.common import *
from spire.presentation import *
# Create an object of the Presentation class
ppt = Presentation()
# Load a PowerPoint presentation
ppt.LoadFromFile("Sample2.pptx")
# Loop through each slide in the presentation
for i in range(ppt.Slides.Count):
slide = ppt.Slides[i]
# Check if the slide is hidden
if(slide.Hidden):
# Unhide the slide
slide.Hidden = False
# Save the resulting presentation to a new .pptx file
ppt.SaveToFile("ShowAllHidenSlides.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2016)
ppt.Dispose()
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