How to Merge Powerpoint
Create eye-catching presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or 2003, one of the many components in the company's Office software suite. If you have two PowerPoint presentation files and want to combine them, instantly merge them using PowerPoint's built-in tools. The end result will be a single seamless PowerPoint file with the slides from the second presentation integrated with your first presentation's slides.
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Instructions
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PowerPoint 2007
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Open the PowerPoint presentation into which you wish to merge another PowerPoint file.
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Select the "Slides" tab in the side panel of PowerPoint. A list of your current slides appears. Click the point in the list where you want to merge the new PowerPoint data.
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Click the "Home" tab, then press "New Slide." Click "Reuse Slides." A new panel will appear.
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Press "Open a PowerPoint File." An explorer box will launch. Navigate to the file that you want to merge into your existing PowerPoint presentation. Click "Open." A list of the second PowerPoint presentation's slides will appear.
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Double-click a slide in the list to merge it into your first PowerPoint presentation. If you want to merge all of the new slides into your old presentation, right-click anywhere in the panel and select "Insert All Slides."
PowerPoint 2003
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Open the PowerPoint file in which you want to merge the second PowerPoint presentation.
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Click "Slides" in the side panel of the PowerPoint window. Click the slide after which you wish the new merged slides to appear.
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Select "Insert" in the top menu bar, and choose "Slides from Files."
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Push "Browse." A new dialog box will appear. Navigate to the second PowerPoint presentation and click "Open." A new window with a list of the second file's slides will appear.
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Click the slides that you want to merge into your first file, then push "Insert." If you want to merge the entire file into your first presentation, push "Insert All."
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References
- "Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Step-by-Step;" Joyce Cox and Joan Preppernau; 2007
- Microsoft: Merging Presentations 2007
- Microsoft: Merging Presentations 2003
Resources
- Photo Credit presentation image by Cindy Haggerty from Fotolia.com
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Comments
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Too complicated.
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liz4414
Jul 29, 2010
I just tried out an app called Powerpoint Merger - it is for the Mac, however. I was able to combine over 35 MS POwerpoint files really fast - save me hours of tedious work. -
macgenius
Jul 29, 2010
This will work if you have a handful of slides. Does anyone know of a better solution for merging over 50 presentations into one master presentation? Please help.
