If your presentations often include one or more slides that provide the same basic information, you don’t have to recreate the slides for each presentation. For example, if you create a slide that shows your company’s product development cycle for one new product presentation, you might want to use variations of that same slide in all new product presentations. You can easily tell PowerPoint to copy a slide and insert in a specific location in a different presentation. The slide will assume the formatting of its new presentation.
In this exercise, you will insert slides from a presentation stored on your hard disk into the active presentation.
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USE the 04_Reusing1 and 04_Reusing2 presentations. These practice files are located in the Chapter13 subfolder under SBS_Office2007.
OPEN the 04_Reusing1 presentation.
On the Slides tab of the Overview pane, click Slide 3.
On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the New Slide arrow, and then in the list, click Reuse Slides.
The Reuse Slides task pane opens.
In the Reuse Slides task pane, click the Open a PowerPoint File link.
PowerPoint displays the Browse dialog box with the contents of your Documents folder displayed.
Navigate to your DocumentsMSPSBS_OfficeChapter13 folder, and then double-click the 04_Reusing2 presentation.
Thumbnails of all the slides in the presentation appear in the Reuse Slides task pane.
Scroll the task pane, and click the seventh thumbnail, titled Bamboo Product Line.
PowerPoint inserts the selected slide from the 04_Reusing2 presentation as Slide 4 in the 04_Reusing1 presentation. The slide takes on the design of the presentation in which it is inserted.
Click the task pane’s Close button.
