Open the presentation you're adding slides to:
- In Slide Sorter view, click the point where you want to insert the new slides.
- Insert | Slides From Files.
- Click the Browse, find the presentation with the slides you want.
- You return to the Slide Finder dialog box and see all of the presentation's slides in a window at the bottom of the dialog box.
- Use the scroll bar below the window to look through all the slides. You may find it easier to browse through them in an outline view. Switch to that look by finding the two icons above the right side of the slide preview window. Click the one on the right to switch to a view that lists all the slide titles on the left and shows a thumbnail of the selected slide on the right.
- Tto bring the entire presentation into the open one, click Insert All.
- If you want to insert selected slides, click those you want to add and click Insert. When PowerPoint inserts the slides, it formats them with the design of the slide immediately before the insertion point..
- To preserve the slides' existing formatting, select Keep Source Formatting before you click Insert.
- While you're in the Slide Finder dialog box, you can open other presentations and insert some of their slides, as well.
- Many speakers draw from a stock set of presentations for their regular talks, customizing any given speech by assembling elements from the various presentations. In that case, the Slide Finder's Favorites tab proves handy. When you have opened a presentation in the dialog box, click the Add To Favorites button. The presentation will appear on the List Of Favorites tab, making it convenient to reach whenever you want to pull slides from it..