Inserting Slides from Another Presentation

We could continue to add slides and text, but since we are going to use slides from our colleague's presentation, we won't need to do that today. Instead, we will import slides from another presentation and then we will edit them.

Step 1. To move to the Home tab, on the Ribbon,

Click the Home tab

Since all new slides will be inserted after the active slide, it is important to make sure that we have the correct slide selected.

Step 2. Locate slide 2 in the slide thumbnail list.

Step 3. Verify that slide 2 has an orange border around it.

The orange border tells us that slide 2 is the active slide.

Step 4. To begin inserting slides from another presentation, in the Slides group,

Click , Click Reuse Slides...

NOTE for MacOS Users: To begin inserting slides from another presentation, Click the arrow to the right of the New Slide button.

The Reuse Slides task pane appears on the right side of the screen. We will browse to select the file that contains the slides we want to import into our presentation.

Step 5. To insert slides from an existing presentation, in the Reuse Slides task pane,

Click , Click Browse File...

NOTE for MacOS Users: The Choose a file dialog box opens. You may be in the PPT_Basics folder already.

The Browse dialog box opens.

Step 6. To navigate to the exercise files, in the Favorites section,

Click

Step 7. To navigate to the PPT_Basics subfolder, in the right pane,

Double-Click , Double-Click PPT_Basics subfolder

Step 8. To open the file,

Double-Click Slides_for_Reuse.pptx

Nine slides appear in the Reuse Slides pane.

NOTE for MacOS Users: The new slides appear directly in the presentation. Steps 9, 10, and 11 are not necessary.  Skip forward to the module, Applying a Theme

If we wanted the new slides to appear exactly as they do now in our new presentation, we would click the "Keep source formatting" checkbox at the bottom of the pane, but since we are only interested in importing the content from these slides, and not the design elements, we will not check this box.

Step 9. To insert all slides, in the Reuse Slides pane,

Right-Click any slide, Click Insert All Slides

The slides are inserted into our current presentation after the selected slide.

Step 10. To close the Reuse Slides pane, in the top-right corner of the pane,

Click

The slides are all still selected. Before we move on, we need to deselect all but one slide.

Step 11. To deselect the slides, in the slide thumbnail list,

scroll upward, Click on slide 1

Now we have 11 slides in the slide thumbnail list: the 2 we created and 9 from our colleague's presentation.