Hi Al Yes I did know about highlighting slides and moving in a block, the trouble was I highlighted just a few, they overlapped and mixed up the order, also I found I had still got 1 slide highlighted when I was moving another block and this made matters worse. I realise now I have to go right to the end to highlight them all I don't know what you mean with Timeline/view/auto adding new tranistion point for new slides . I have this selected when you say you can switch between old and new ways, does that mean I should be able to shift all the images to the right and bring back by just adding new tranisition point Thanks for taking an interest in my problem Beth