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If you often include a slide that provides the same basic information in your presenta-
tions, you don’t have to re-create the slide for each presentation. For example, if you
create a slide that shows your company’s product development cycle for a new product
presentation, you might want to use variations of that same slide in all new product
presentations. You can easily tell PowerPoint to reuse a slide from one presentation in
a different presentation. The slide assumes the formatting of its new presentation.
See Also For information about using a slide library to store slides for reuse, see the sidebar
“Working with Slide Libraries” following this topic.
Within a presentation, you can duplicate an existing slide to reuse it as the basis for a
new slide. You can then customize the duplicated slide instead of having to create it
from scratch.
In this exercise, you’ll add slides by importing a Word outline. Then you’ll reuse a slide
from an existing presentation. Finally, you’ll duplicate an existing slide.SET UP You need the ServiceB_start and Projects presentations and the Service-
Orientation document located in your Chapter13 practice file folder to complete this
exercise. Open the ServiceB_start presentation, and save it as ServiceB. Then follow
the steps.- On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click the New Slide arrow, and then below
the gallery, click Slides from Outline.
The Insert Outline dialog box opens. This dialog box resembles the Open
dialog box. - Navigate to your Chapter13 practice file folder, and then double-click the
ServiceOrientation file.
PowerPoint converts the outline into 12 slides. - In the Overview pane, click the Outline tab.
On the Outline tab, each Heading 1 style from the ServiceOrientation document is
now a slide title, each Heading 2 style is a bullet point, and each Heading 3 style
is a subpoint.