We’ve had questions about the possibility of combining several of our templates into one presentation. Essentially, how do you mix and match slides from different animated templates?
It’s actually very easy to do if you are using PowerPoint 2007 or newer. I’ve put together a video tutorial about how to use the “Reuse Slides” function in PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2007 to combine slides from various templates.
Click Play to watch Video Tutorial
Note For Combining Several Animated Templates Together.
Remember that the more animated templates you combine the larger your presentation will become. A number of video files will make your presentation quite bulky. This could be a problem if you are distributing the completed presentation.
Please leave a comment if you find this tutorial helpful or have any questions.
You can download the templates used in this video here.
Mac PowerPoint 2008 and 2011 instructions.
In Mac PowerPoint, inserting slides from other presentations or templates work pretty much the same way but the command is labeled differently. The function is located under the “Insert” menu. Look for Insert/Slides From/Other Presentations. See screen shot below:
Insert Slides from other presentations in Mac PowerPoint 2008 and 2011
In the slide finder, be sure to check “Keep Design of Original Slide” to retain the formatting, animations and other graphic elements. Otherwise PowerPoint will only copy the text and not slides design.
Check Keep Design of Original Slides
Tags: PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2008, PowerPoint 2010, PowerPoint 2011, PowerPoint Templates, tutorial, Video Tutorial
Thank you this was an awesome tip and it worked perfectly!
Great Alice! I’m so glad it helped you.
Best,
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
Excellent tip. Thank you for training and art work. Please keep it up.
David
This was EXCELLENT and very helpful!!!!! Thank you for taking the time out to do this.
Art :
Thanks for the tutorial. I am so excited to get started. The slides look fabulous.
Thanks
Muhammad
Thanks Muhammad, it was nice to talk to you on the phone as well. Best wishes on your presentation.
Thanks so much for everything you guys and gals do. You guys make me look so darn good at meetings with your creations…no joke.
Hi Stacey, Thank you for the nice comment. We sure do appreciate you as a subscriber as well.
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
this just saved my life at work; thanks!
Very helpful. Nice job.. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the nice tutorial. There is so much to learn on Powerpoint. Keep them coming!
Hi,
Struggled with no sound on viewing the video – any thoughts?
Thanks
Hi Mark, The tutorial video is published using Flash, perhaps you need to update your Flash player?
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
thanks. Im so thankful for this. I was like putting my hair out trying to find out how to do this. the video is pretty useful.
Thanks for this very useful – I am a PhD student and new to presenting at conferences – I have one coming up in a couple of weeks and am basing my presentation on several of your slides. I would like some pictures of buildings (not houses) as I am talking about offices – not sure if this would be a popular enough idea for you guys to take the time though?
Thanks again.
Hi Lesley, I think we could add some more buildings to the site. Do you like the looks of these type of buildings?
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
I clicked on the video tutorial but, the video wasn’t working.
any thoughts?? Thank you Art!!
Hi Jennifer, we had a couple of other people comment about this tutorial not playing right, so I rebuilt it and replaced the old video. Does it play for you now?
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
No! there are no images just a bunch of colorful lines…. it looks like the images are trying really hard to be able to display…
Jennifer, Possibly your Flash player needs to be updated?
Art
You’re a lifesaver! Thank you for this easy tip on combining multiple 2010 PowerPoint presentations into one.
Thanks for such a quick and easy tutorial. Wish I had discovered this years ago, it would have saved me hundreds of times! It worked perfectly!!
woooow ,, great tip , I was wondering how to do that
still learning new things in ppt
you’re the best ^^
thank you
Is it possible to Combine Slides from Multiple PowerPoint Templates while using powerpoint 2003??
Hello Tom, Yes you can combine slides in PowerPoint 2003. Under the Insert tab, choose “Insert Slides From Files”. Browse to the template or presentation you want to add a slide from. Be sure to check the box “Keep Source Formatting” in order to copy the entire slide design and not just the info on the slide.
With our animated templates and PowerPoint 2003, you’ll also need to be sure you are copying the video files into the same directory as your presentation, if you are combining animated templates together.
Hope this helps.
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
Great tutorial for combinig slides from presentations. Gives so much more versatility.
I needed to combine non-animated slides from different presentations while still keeping the backgrounds/elements that students chose to represent themselves. This made my job SO very easy. Thank you very much for this! You are also very easy to listen to – that can’t be said for all oral presenters. Keep up the great work!
So appreciate how quick and easy this was. Thank you much.
Thanks, you rock
You guys are doing a fantastic job and I’ve used tons of the graphics and PPT presentations. I still need a couple more firefighter images. If you need suggestions, I’d be happy to make some.
Thanks again for this wonderful site.
Hi,
Is this tip available for openoffice? I have a lot of powerpoint templates. Thank you in advance.
Regards,
James
Hi James, We are currently not supporting Open Office, as Open Office does not yet support many of the PowerPoint features our templates utilize.
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
Thanks for helpful presentation…..u saved me from lot of trouble…
Thanks for the tutorial! Great video. Very informative and easy to follow.
I love your product. It has been a great joy to make my presentations. However, I need your assistance. I am using PP 2011 on MAC. I am including a slide from your police car flashing. It works fine until I save the presentation and open it again. I have a copy of the entire Police car slide show on my MAC and it is saved and it works just fine. It is only when I combine one of the slides into another slide show.
Please help.
Anna, let me do some research on this. I have not heard of any issues with combining slides on Mac PowerPoint causing it to drop the added animation.
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
Is it possible you saved the presentation as a .ppt instead of the normal .pptx? Saving the presentation as .ppt (compatibility mode) would remove the animation.