Remove Slide from Presentation

If a slide (or its contents) becomes redundant, you can delete it. Aspose.Slides provides the Presentation class that encapsulates ISlideCollection, which is a repository for all slides in a presentation. Using pointers (reference or index) for a known ISlide object, you can specify the slide you want to remove.

Remove Slide by Reference

1. Create an instance of the Presentation class.
2. Get a reference of the slide you want to remove through its ID or Index.
3. Remove the referenced slide from the presentation.
4. Save the modified presentation.

This Python code shows you how to remove a slide through its reference:

import aspose.slides as slides

# Instantiates a Presentation object that represents a presentation file
with slides.Presentation(path + "RemoveSlideUsingReference.pptx") as pres:
    # Accesses a slide through its index in the slides collection
    slide = pres.slides[0]

    # Removes a slide through its reference
    pres.slides.remove(slide)

    # Saves the modified presentation
    pres.save("modified_out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)

Remove Slide by Index

1. Create an instance of the Presentation class.
2. Remove the slide from the presentation through its index position.
3. Save the modified presentation.

This Python code shows you how to remove a slide through its index:

import aspose.slides as slides

# Instantiates a Presentation object that represents a presentation file
with slides.Presentation(path + "RemoveSlideUsingIndex.pptx") as pres:
    # Removes a slide through its slide index
    pres.slides.remove_at(0)

    # Saves the modified presentation
    pres.save("modified_out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)

Remove Unused Layout Slide

Aspose.Slides provides the remove_unused_layout_slides(pres) method (from the Compress class) to allow you to delete unwanted and unused layout slides. This Python code shows you how to remove a layout slide from a PowerPoint presentation:

import aspose.slides as slides

with slides.Presentation("pres.pptx") as pres:
    slides.lowcode.Compress.remove_unused_layout_slides(pres)
    pres.save("pres-out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)

Remove Unused Master Slide

Aspose.Slides provides the remove_unused_master_slides(pres) method (from the Compress class) to allow you to delete unwanted and unused master slides. This Python code shows you how to remove a master slide from a PowerPoint presentation:

import aspose.slides as slides

with slides.Presentation("pres.pptx") as pres:
    slides.lowcode.Compress.remove_unused_master_slides(pres)
    pres.save("pres-out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)