Important:Â Reuse Slides will be retired starting on January 1, 2026.
You can add one or more slides to your presentation from another, without having to open the other file.
(By default, a copied slide inherits the design of the slide you're inserting it after in the destination presentation. However, you can choose to keep the formatting of the slide you're copying instead.)
When you import a slide from one presentation to another, it is simply a copy of the original. Changes you make to the copy do not affect the original slide in the other presentation.Â
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Open the presentation that you want to add a slide to.
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In the slide thumbnail pane on the left, click where you want to add a slide.
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On the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Slides group, click the arrow below New Slide, and then select Reuse Slides.
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In the Reuse Slides pane, click Open a PowerPoint File.
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In the Browse dialog box, locate and click the presentation file that contains the slide that you want, and then click Open.
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If you want the slide that you are adding to the destination presentation to maintain the formatting of the original presentation, select the Keep source formatting check box before you add the slide to the destination presentation. (When this check box is not selected, the copied slides inherit the styling of the slide they're inserted after.) Then, in the Reuse Slides pane, do one of the following:
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To add a single slide, click the slide.
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To add all of the slides, right-click any slide, and then select Insert All Slides.
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Open an existing presentation or create a new presentation that you want to insert slides into.
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In Normal view, in the navigation pane, click the slide that you want to insert the other slides after.
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On the Home tab, under Slides, click the arrow next to New Slide, and then click Reuse Slides.
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In the dialog box, find the presentation that you want to insert, and select it. Click OK.
Copies of all the slides are inserted into your presentation. If you only need some of them, you can remove them by selecting them in the left pane and pressing the Delete key on your keyboard. (To select multiple slides for deletion, hold down
See Also
Copy and paste your slides​​​​​​​
