One of the common questions we receive is how do I use one slide from one of our templates in another presentation or a different PowerPoint template. It is easy to copy slides between presentations. I’ll use a couple of our PowerPoint templates as examples in this tutorial.
I’m going to use PowerPoint 2007 for this tutorial but the process is the same for PowerPoint 2010.
Step 1
Open up the presentation you are making and the template you want to copy a slide from.
Step 2
In the template, right click on the slide in the slides tab or in the slide sorter view you wish to copy and choose copy from the menu. See illustration below.
How to copy a slide in PowerPoint
Step 3
Paste your slide you just copied in the presentation you are working on. Right click in the slides tab or the slide sorter view at the place you wish to insert (paste) the slide.
How to Paste a slide from another presentation
Step 4
Click the “Paste Options” icon which appear beneath the slide you just pasted. By default the slide is formatted according to the settings of your current presentation. In order for the slide to retain the look of the slide from the template you copied from, you need to tell PowerPoint to use the formatting from the slides source.
In the Paste Options you can choose “Keep Source Formatting”. This retains the format from the template you copied from.
Click Keep Source Formatting in the Paste Options
Nice and simple right? Go ahead and start putting together your favorite slides from all of our templates.
Good Presenting!
Art Holden
