Objective 5.1 Merge content from multiple presentations

  • 5.1.1 Display multiple presentations
  • 5.1.2 Reuse slides from other presentations
  • 5.1.3 Compare, combine, and review differences
  • 5.1.4 Manage comments

5.1 Contents

5.1.2 Reuse slides from other presentations

There are multiple ways to reuse slides from one presentation in another:

  • You can move or copy slides directly between open presentations.
  • You can import slides from one presentation into another by using the Reuse Slides tool. It isn’t necessary to open the source presentation.
  • If you know in advance that you’ll want to use a slide in multiple presentations, you can publish it to the slide library on your computer and then reuse it from there, without having to track down the presentation or undo any presentation-specific modifications that you might have made to the slide.

You can reuse slides from any presentation that you can browse to from File Explorer

To reuse slides from an existing presentation

  1. In the Thumbnails pane or Slide Sorter pane, click where you want to insert the reused slide or slides.
  2. On the Home tab or Insert tab, in the Slides group, click the New Slide arrow, and then click Reuse Slides.
  3. In the Reuse Slides pane, click Browse, and then click Browse File.
  4. In the Browse dialog box, locate and double-click the presentation containing the slides you want to reuse.
  5. In the Reuse Slides pane, click each slide you want to reuse, and then close the pane.

Tip: By default, reused slides take on the formatting of the presentation into which they are inserted. To retain the slides’ source formatting, select the Keep Source Formatting check box before inserting the first slide.