Copy and paste slides

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

  • If you're copying slides between presentations, open both presentations, and on the Window menu, click Arrange All.
  • On the Slides tab in normal view, select the slides you want to copy.

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    Either click to select a single slide, press SHIFT while clicking to select slides in a row, or press CTRL while clicking to select slides not in a row.

  • Right-click a selected slide, and then click Copy.
  • On the Slides tab, click the slide you want your copied slides to follow, then right-click, and click Paste on the shortcut menu.

    If the slides you pasted use a different design template than the slide you pasted after, and you want to keep the original formatting, go to step 5. Otherwise, the pasted slides assume the formatting of the slide they follow, and the paste is complete.

  • To retain the slides' original formatting, click the Paste Options button Button image, which appears under the slides you pasted, and on the button menu, click Keep Source Formatting.

    If you decide you want the current design template styles to apply, click Use Design template formatting (this is the default).

  • Note  If you want to move slides instead of copy them, click Cut on the shortcut menu rather than Copy.

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    • To drag the slides, select them, drag them to the new position on the Slides tab, look for the horizontal line under the slide where you want to paste, then release the mouse button. Use the Paste Options button Button image in the same way as described in the procedure above to retain the original formatting.

    • To copy, you can also press CTRL+C; to cut, you can press CTRL+X; to paste, you can press CTRL+V.