Copying and pasting a slide from one presentation into another usually comes with a small but annoying cost: fonts shift, colors change, spacing breaks.
PowerPoint has a dedicated import tool built specifically to avoid that.
Here's the trick:
Reuse Slides inserts slides from a different file while keeping (or matching) their original design.
How to use it
- Go to Home > New Slide > Reuse Slides.
- Browse to the presentation file you want to pull a slide from.
- Click any slide in the thumbnail panel to insert it into your current deck.
- Check "Keep source formatting" first if you want the slide to look exactly as it did in the original file.
Where it helps most
Pulling a proven slide from an old pitch deck or a colleague's file without the copy-paste formatting mess that usually comes with it.
One thing to watch for
Leaving "Keep source formatting" unchecked makes the slide match your current deck's theme instead. Decide which you want before inserting, since switching afterward can shift things around.
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