PowerPoint Bring back "Reuse slide" and allow formatting options when inserting slides
In Office for Mac 2011 (and for current Windows Users) one can choose to reuse a single slide (or 2, 3 etc) from another presentation and retain the original formatting. No more! With 2016 the user is forced to add ALL slides from the secondary presentation - and the formatting is automatically changed, too. For example, if you need 2 slides from a 100 slide presentation, all 100 slides are inserted and all formatting auto-changed to the receiving presentation. This renders the feature virtually useless and costs users a ton of time that wasn't previously required. The Microsoft Tech team casually dismissed this issue in 2018i, but I can't imagine they really understaand how degraded the Reuse feature is for Mac users. Please reconsider!
Ken Hampian
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Ann Sincox
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As a meeting planner, I am constantly being handed jump drives by presenters who expect me to plug their presentations into my currently running PowerPoint. I loved the fact that I could do that easily with a couple of clicks. I have no idea why someone thought removing that feature was a good idea but please, for the love of all things meeting oriented, bring it back! I'm discovering its absence three days from a major meeting and am now ripping my hair out. The idea of having six or seven or more PowerPoints open in my tray is a nightmare. Losing the smoothness I once had is disheartening. I'm very, very sad and extremely frustrated. Like the others, I'm begging - please, please, please fix this!
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Anonymous
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eliminating the ability to insert selected slides from another presentation was a really dumb move. I'm finally going to have to move to Keynote
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Anonymous
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I was just upgraded to 2016 by my IT and I am begging them to let me re-install the previous version for precisely this reason. It is a massive waste of time to have to go through and delete each slide that I don't want inserted instead of just selecting the ones I do want. Plus, why is the option to retain the original formatting gone?!?!
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Anonymous
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2016 is a mess for Mac. I've waited to upgrade from 2008 but find it so unusable that I'll go back to 2008, thank you. Microsoft, please let us know when 2016 bugs are fixed.
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Anonymous
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On Mac, please allow for the ability to insert single slides while keeping its formatting from the presentation it's pulled from without having to open that second source presentation. Extremely laborious with ultra-high margins of error to have to open both docs.
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Anonymous
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The reuse slides option, which is present in the windows version, is critically important. Currently it is not possible to preserve original formatting when using slides from other presentations in Mac 2016.
The lack of the reuse feature in its original form (with the ability to select individual slides for import) is a huge deficiency. For many people this will be deal breaker. I am considering returning my new Mac because of this. -
Anonymous
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I don't know what you did in your latest update, but now when I try to insert hymns into the Worship ppts that I do for my church, the backgrounds don't come in & the fonts get changed
to an 8 or 9 pt size, as well as getting moved to the very left margin. So, I have to do a lot
of extra work to make my presentation workable, thanks to you. -
Ono
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Microsoft DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT our needs. They do not pay attention to us, instead they include in new updates silly features such as tab support, or new frames instead of including ESSENTIAL features included in previous versions and in office 2016 for windows.
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Ono
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We have been asking for the return of this feature but Microsoft DOES NOT CONSIDER user's needs. It is incredible!
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Anonymous
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Reuse (or "Insert Slides" as it was previously known) is a busted feature on the Mac version. Formatting is fouled up in the process, and you can't select individual slides...you get all or nothing. In what universe was *this* acceptable. The Windows version is functional. The Mac version is catastrophic, especially backstage when a last minute update is requested.
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Anonymous
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I upgraded to the 2016 version only recently, and this is the second critical workflow tool I've found that Microsoft has taken away. Do they not even use their own product? Anyone who does regularly would never have even considered this.
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Anonymous
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I absolutely agree. Whoever was dumb enough to remove this feature has obviously never needed to prepare Powerpoint lectures. Please fix ASAP!!
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Anonymous
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This makes PP useless - may have to revert to 2011 PP.
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Lisa Goldberg
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What a huge disappointment and waste of time. This feature needs to be restored. I used this feature all the time when creating presentations from across my organization.
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Anonymous
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It is ridiculous that this is still not fixed a year later . . .Microsoft, get your act together.
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David Avitabile
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What a ridiculous oversight on the part of Microsoft. Let's make the software worse, rather than better, than it was. Terrible.
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Harold Gribow
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Open the presentation you want to change with Keynote. Open your source presentation. Copy and paste the slides you want from the source to the presentation you're working on. Export the finished presentation to PowerPoint. The inserted slides won't change format. Actually, once you get used to Keynote, it works better than PowerPoint. No surprise really.
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Harold Gribow
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Surprising that this feature was not included in the 2016 update. Please fix ASAP
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pjag
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This is a really important feature- please fix immediately
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Edieman
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Agree. Please bring this feature back!
