Pulling Slides from the Library to PowerPoint

Once you have slides in your library, you will work with them primarily from within PowerPoint. You can quickly pull slides into presentations using the following steps:

1. Open the presentation into which you want to insert one or more slides.

2. On the Home tab, click the down arrow under the New Slides button and click Reuse Slides.

3. In the task pane that appears, click Open a Slide Library.

4. In the Folder Name box, type or paste the URL for your library. If you paste it from your browser, remove everything after the slide library name.

   EXPERT TIP 

   To best see all of the slides, you might want to widen and/or undock the task pane. To undock it, click the blue bar at the top of the task pane and drag it toward the middle of the screen. Drag the edge of the task pane to widen it.

5. (Optional) To keep the source formatting for the slide(s), mark the Keep Source Formatting check box.

6. (Optional) Mark the check box for Tell Me When the Slide Changes. This ensures that if someone else changes this slide and checks it into the library, you will be notified.

7. Click a slide to add it to the presentation.

   EXPERT TIP 

   If your library is very large and you want to search for slides that match a certain criteria, type criteria in the Search box. This works only if your server supports Search.

8. Close the task pane.