How to Duplicate a Slide in PowerPoint?

Working on a long PowerPoint presentation can be frustrating. You spend 20-30 minutes on a slide and then move to the next slide, which is similar to the last one. Have you ever wondered how to duplicate a slide in PowerPoint to speed up the process?

Is it possible to duplicate a slide to use a pre-existing design and change the content only? Yes, PowerPoint allows users to make a copy of any slide. An existing slide will appear in the thumbnail pane when you duplicate a slide.

Once you have duplicate and original slides, make minor changes to the duplicate one instead of making a new one from scratch. The duplicate slide feature is quite useful when you are working on a presentation with repetitive designs and layouts.

Steps to Duplicate a Slide in PowerPoint

Making a copy of the slide is easy in PowerPoint. Within a few clicks, you can duplicate a slide in PPT and then edit it according to your requirements. Let’s see how to duplicate a slide in PowerPoint in simple steps.

Step 1: Open PowerPoint and Find Original Slide

Open your existing PowerPoint presentation and navigate to the original slide that you want to copy or duplicate. Right click on the thumbnail of the original slide and from the menu, choose Duplicate Slide option.

Step 2: Edit Duplicate Slide

A duplicate slide thumbnail will appear under the original one. Select the duplicate slide and edit it with your content or other elements for the slide.

What is “Reuse Slides” in PowerPoint?

While making a copy of the slide, you might have seen the “Reuse Slides” option in the menu. These two options may seem similar, but they serve different purposes.

When you choose the Reuse Slides option, a pane appears on the right where you can see different presentations.

Select any presentation, and you will be asked to select the slides from other presentations. Your selected slides from the other presentation will be added to the currently open presentation.

How to Add a Pre-designed Slide in a Presentation?

You are making a presentation and want to add a totally new slide with unique design. You will have to add a new blank slide and then start designing it from scratch. PowerPoint does not have option to insert single slide with pre-defined design, formatting and content.

How to add a slide that does not need any type of editing and already has the content according to the presentation? We will use Twistly AI add-in to add instant slides.

How to Use Twistly to Add an AI Slide?

Twistly is an AI add-in for PowerPoint that works inside the software. Once you have installed the add-in, follow these steps to add an instant slide to your existing presentation.

Step 1: Launch Twistly, Add Slide

Keep the presentation open and launch Twistly add-in from the top right corner in the Home tab. Click second icon, Add Slide, from the left menu, as shown in the image.

• Choose the template from the Twistly library.
• Select a layout for the slide.
• Choose any thumbnail of the slide to instantly add it, or let AI decide the right type of slide

After selecting the options or slide type, click Continue. Let’s say we chose the Agenda slide here.

Step 2: Review the New Slide  

As you can see, new slide has been added to the presentation, and it already has an attractive design, formatting and content that aligns with the rest of presentation.

Step 3: Edit New Slide

Do you want to make changes to the new slide? Twistly offers quick AI options to:

• Add/replace images in the slide
• Rewrite text
• Add a new slide
• Add speaker notes

Choose any AI action button, and Twistly will instantly optimize and edit your slide as per your command, no manual editing or designing required.

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Conclusion

We have learned how to duplicate a slide in PowerPoint and how to add predesigned slides with Twistly. Now, you can either waste hours on manual editing and designing or download Twistly to make an instant PowerPoint presentation like a pro.