Inserting Slides from Other Presentations
As an alternative to creating a custom show, you can also insert slides from another presentation. This helps save time and redundancy as well.
Note
A major difference between custom shows and inserting slides is that inserting makes a copy of the slide and, if you change the original, the copy isn't affected. Custom shows "link" to the slides, so they are stored only once.
Choose Insert, Slides from Files to open the Slide Finder dialog box, shown in Figure 7.10.
From the Find Presentation tab, click the Browse button to open the Browse dialog box (see Figure 7.11).
Tip
You can also enter the filename and path directly in the File edit box.
Figure 7.10. The Slide Finder helps you add slides from other presentations.
Figure 7.11. Browse to find your source presentation.
Click the Display button to display the presentation in the lower portion of the dialog box, as shown in Figure 7.12.
Figure 7.12. Display the presentation in the lower portion of the dialog box.
To display all the slides in a view similar to Slide Sorter View, click the Slide Sorter button to the far right of the Select Slides part of the dialog box. Use the scrollbar at the bottom of the dialog box to navigate and select slides.
To display an outline list of all slides on the left side and the slide itself on the right, as shown in Figure 7.13, click the Outline button to the far right of the Select Slides part of the dialog box.
Select the slide you want to insert and click Insert.
Continue selecting and inserting slides until you finish. The slides are inserted in the order you selected them, following the active slide in the current presentation.
Tip
Click the Insert All button to insert all slides in the current presentation.
Click the Close button to exit the dialog box.
Note
The inserted slides take on the design template of the presentation in which they are inserted, not the template of their source presentation.
Figure 7.13. Use an outline to find the slide you want to insert.
If you frequently insert slides from the same presentation, you can add them to a favorites list. Click the Add to Favorites button to do so. The next time you want to insert slides from this presentation, you can go to the List of Favorites tab in the Slide Finder dialog box (see Figure 7.14) to easily locate them.
Figure 7.14. Using the List of Favorites tab makes it easier to find commonly used slides.
Note
In addition to inserting slides, you can also hide them. To hide a selected slide or slides, choose Slide Show, Hide Slide. This doesn't delete the slide; it simply prevents it from displaying in the show.