Lesson 4 - Duplicating the Slide
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Now, after learning about inserting a slides, next you are going to learn duplicating a slides. Follow these simple steps to duplicate a selected slides.
There are one more method to duplicate your slide, go to New Slides command in Slide section under Home Tab and click on it. Here you will see “Duplicate Selected Slide” command after slide layout design. Click on it, and your current working slide will duplicate.
Or you can duplicate your current working slide in a second, just simply follow these simple steps –
In a previous lesson you learnt about, adding new slides with same layout. Always remember there is a difference between adding a new slide with same layout and duplicating your slides.
Re-arranging your slides is a good practice to make a meaningful presentation. A presentation without correct meaning or message is a waste. So it’s really important to check the order of your slides before going to present it. Here in this lesson you will to set you slides in a correct order so it convey the right message to your audience. Follow some simple steps to rearrange your slides.
There is one more method to re-arrange the order of your slides, known as Cut-Paste method. In this method you can simply cut the slide from its current position and paste it in a new position, in your presentation. Follow these simple steps to re-arrange it.
You can use mouse instead of shortcut command to paste your slide. Right click in between two slides in thumbnail panel and select “Keep Source Formatting” under Paste command to keep formatting you done in slide. On selecting “Use destination theme” slide will pasted only with Theme, all the formatting you have done will lost.
Or you can also paste it directly via Paste command inside Clipboard section under Home tab, after selecting a location in thumbnail panel.
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