Adding Slides from Another Slideshow in Powerpoint 2010

  This tool is extremely helpful when you have an important informational slide that is valuable in more than one presentation. Once the slide is correct in one presentation, you can continuously add it to new slideshows without worrying about spelling mistakes or incorrect information. Additionally, if creating that slide required a lot of legwork that would be difficult to duplicate, you can take advantage of your initial hard work while simultaneously improving your new presentation. Continue reading to learn how to insert slides from another presentation in Powerpoint 2010.   Step 1: Open the Powerpoint 2010 presentation into which you want to insert your existing slides. Step 2: Click the Review tab at the top of the window.

  Step 3: Click the Compare button in the Compare section of the ribbon at the top of the window.

  Step 4: Browse to the slideshow containing the slide(s) that you want to insert into your new presentation, then double-click the file to open it. You can even choose to insert all of the slides from that presentation, if you want. Step 5: Check the box to the left of each slide that you want to insert into your new slideshow. If you want to insert all of the slides, check the box at the top of the list, to the left of All slides inserted at this position.

  Step 6: Adjust the order of your slides, if necessary, by clicking a slide in the preview column at the left side of the window, then dragging it to the desired position. Once you have finished making all of your changes, remember to save the changes that you have made to the file. Powerpoint also has a helpful utility that will allow you to duplicate individual slides in a slideshow. You can read here to learn more about how to perform that action. After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science he spent several years working in IT management for small businesses. However, he now works full time writing content online and creating websites. His main writing topics include iPhones, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Android, and Photoshop, but he has also written about many other tech topics as well. Read his full bio here.

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