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When you copy one or more slides from a presentation to a location within the same presentation or to another presentation, you can specify the theme that you want the new slides to adopt.

By default, when a slide is pasted into a new location in a presentation, it inherits the theme of the slide that precedes it. However, if you copied the slide from another presentation that uses a different theme, you can retain that theme when you paste the slide into a different presentation. To change the formatting so that a pasted slide does not inherit the theme from the slide that precedes it, use the Paste Options button button image- which appears near the pasted slide.

  1. In the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click the Slides tab.
  2. Select the slide that you want to copy by doing one of the following:
    • To select a single slide, click it.
    • To select multiple sequential slides, click the first slide, press SHIFT, and then click the last slide that you want to select.
    • To select multiple nonsequential slides, press CTRL, and then click each slide that you want to select.
  3. Right-click one of the selected slides, and then click Copy.
  4. In the destination presentation, on the Slides tab, right-click the slide that you want your copied slides to follow, and then click Paste.

    To retain the original design of the copied slides, click the Paste Options button button image, which appears near the pasted slides on the Outline or Slides tab in Normal view, or in the Slides pane, and then click Keep Source Formatting.If you do not see the Paste Options button, go to

    Note below.

Tip

To move slides to another location, select the slides that you want to move, and then drag them to the new location. Use the Paste Options button as described above to retain the original formatting.

When you paste a slide into a new location in a presentation, the Paste Options button button image typically appears near the pasted slide on the Outline or Slides tab in Normal view, or in the Slides pane. The Paste Options button enables you to control how your content appears after you paste it - also known as paste recovery .

The following are reasons why you may not see the Paste Options button after you paste a slide:

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