Reusing presentation slides

Using slides from an already created presentation saves a lot of time, especially if the presentation you are creating is going to consist of numerous slides that you can reuse from another presentation:

1. Open a new presentation called Safest Solution-Benefits.pptx.
2. Go to Home | New Slide | Reuse Slides… (at the bottom of the menu).
3. A Reuse Slides pane will open to the right of the PowerPoint environment:

4. Click on the Browse button to access the folders on your computer.
5. Choose Browse File… to open another presentation in the Reuse Slides pane – use the City Berlin Design.pptx presentation to follow this example. Once selected, the file will open on the right-hand side of the PowerPoint screen as a Reuse Slides Task pane.

6. Before we insert a slide from the browsed presentation, we must click on a slide in the existing presentation to indicate where we would like to insert the new slide.
7. To insert a slide beneath the selected slide, click to select a slide from the Reuse Slides pane. The slide will be inserted into the existing presentation, beneath the selected slide:

8. Notice that the inserted slide takes on the theme from the existing presentation.
9. Should you wish to keep the formatting of the selected slide and not merge it with the existing slide presentation theme, click on the Keep source formatting checkbox at the bottom of the Reuse Slides pane:

With that, you have learned how to combine slides from other presentations into an existing or new presentation, as well as how to access the option to keep the formatting of the inserted slides as-is. Now, we will look at the different types of layouts available within PowerPoint 2019.