Digitizing Your PDD

Combining Presentations

You can combine presentations, or copy already existing slides from one presentation into another presentation. To work with two presentations simultaneously ,

• Open both presentations.

• Choose WINDOW : Arrange All to display both presentations side-by-side on the screen.

NOTE: the presentation that was the active presentation when you made the Arrange All selection will be on the left.

• Notice that each presentation has its own Navigation Toolbar in the lower left corner of its respective window. Put each presentation in Slide Sorter View.

• Use the Scroll Bar to navigate through each presentation until you can see the slide you want to copy in the original presentation and the location in the destination presentation where you want the slide placed.

• Press and drag the slide from one presentation to the other.

NOTE: You will not be able to drag the slide if the original presentation is in Slide View and the destination presentation is in Slide Sorter View.

When you press and drag, you remove the slide from the original presentation. If you want to keep the original presentation as it was, do NOT save it when you close the presentation. An alternative is to right click on the slide to be moved and choose COPY, then click in the destination presentation and paste it.

Notice that "transplanted" slide takes on the characteristics of the receiving presentation, including the color scheme. Any charts contained in the transplanted slide will be updated to reflect the colors of the destination presentation.

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