Reusing slides in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, do you find yourself recreating a slide you used in a different presentation?  Or maybe trying to copy and paste a slide from one presentation to another?   There is an easier way: Reuse the slide by importing it directly from the other presentation.

To include one or more slides from another presentation (PowerPoint 2007):
1.      Home tab, Slides group, click on the drop-down list below the New Slide button
2.      Select Reuse Slides
3.      In the Reuse Slides Task Pane, click on the Browse button
4.      Select Browse File
5.      Navigate to the file and click on it to select it
6.      Click on the Open button and all slides in the presentation are displayed
7.      Click on a slide to insert it into your current presentation
8.      When you are finished, close the Reuse Slides Task Pane

Notes:

• Increase the width of the Task Pane to see more slides at once.
• In the Task Pane, presentations you have previously opened are on the Insert slide from drop-down list.   After selecting a presentation from this list, click on the arrow button to open the presentation.
• To insert all slides, right-click on a slide in the Task Pane and select Insert All Slides

To include one or more slides from another presentation (PowerPoint 2003):
1.      Insert menu, Slides from Files
2.      In the Slide Finder dialog box, click on the Browse button
3.      Navigate to the presentation that contains the slide(s)
4.      Click on the Open button
5.      If the slides are not displayed, click on the Display button
6.      Click on the slides you want to include
7.      When you have selected the slides you want, click on the Insert button
8.      Click on Close

Notes:

• If you frequently include slides from a presentation, click on the Add to Favorites button after you have selected the presentation in step 4 above. The file will be added to a list on the List of Favorites tab so you can quickly access it.
• Click on the two buttons below the Display button to see two different ways of displaying the slides.
• If you accidentally select the wrong slide, click on it again to deselect it.
• If you want to insert slides at a variety of places in your presentation, it may be quicker to insert them all at once and then use Slide Sorter view to position them rather than using the steps above repeatedly to insert one at a time.
• Inserted slides follow the current presentation's Slide Master.

So Reduce, Reuse, Recycle can apply to PowerPoint too!

Any questions, please let me know.

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