GUEST BLOGGER: Susan Strandberg, Instructor
PowerPoint is such a wonderfully useful tool when we want to present information to a group of people. We work hard to create interesting and inventive presentations that will grab and hold our audiences attention. Many times, if we have to create a presentation quickly we try to reuse slides from previous presentations.
How do we go about putting a slide from an existing presentation into a different presentation?
Open the presentation that you are working on. On the Home tab in the Slides group click on the bottom half of the New Slide command.
At the bottom choose Reuse Slides. This will open the Reuse Slides task pane on the right-hand side of your PowerPoint window. Click on the Browse button and choose where you would like to look for the PowerPoint presentation that contains the slides that you want to reuse.
Once you have selected the presentation with the slides you want to reuse click on Open. You should now see the slides from that presentation in the Reuse Slides task pane. If you hover over the slides you will see a larger version of that slide so that it is easier to determine which slides you want to use.
If you click on a slide it will insert that slide into your current presentation while matching the theme/design that you have applied to your current presentation. If you want to retain the theme/design of the original presentation when inserting the slides you must check the box at the bottom of the Reuse Slides task pane that says Keep source formatting. That will insert the slide exactly as is in the original presentation.
When you are done inserting slides into your current presentation you can close out of the Reuse Slides task pane by clicking the x in the top, right corner.
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