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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Anonymous
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Agreed ... why did they do away with this feature from earlier versions? It's a disaster!
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Anonymous
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And compare and combine them. Wow, whoever changed this doesn't teach!
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RMuth
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Powerpoint 2011 allowed you to insert slides from another presentation very easily. Powerpoint 2016 does not. In 2016, you only have the option of inserting the entire friggin' presentation, not just select slides. Who was the genius that came up with this idea?? Retrain them. Please, please, please fix this so that we can add select slides to a powerpoint 2016 presentation and not the entire other presentation. I'm begging you, please, please, please fix this.
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tavkomet
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This has the most votes of all the requests I have seen so far and yet there is no response that this is under review??? Had I known that this was no available in the new 2016 version I never would have downloaded it. This is a no-brainer - who doesn't import slides from other presentations?? We need this NOW!!
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Anonymous
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Come on Microsoft, this feature was included in PWP 2011, are not you going to include this in PWP 2016? We have been waiting almost a year for a fix!
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Anonymous
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I agree
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Gabino Noriega
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We need this feature back, this is very helpful to have and save us ppt users a lot of time.
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Janet Eastman
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This is one of the most critical features when you are creating powerpoint. Please include. Totally surprised it was not there in Apple version when I moved for PC to Apple.
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Anonymous
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Agreed!!!! This is a very important feature. FIX IT NOW! Annoyed as I have a presentation in two hours to combine 10 PPTs for various presenters on a Webinar and did not know that this function was unavailable in 2016. Hugely disappointed in Microsoft.
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Anonymous
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A very important feature missed. Fix it ASP, please
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LM
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This feature needs to be restored. We used this feature all the time when combining our firm template with client templates. Huge disappointment.
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Iso
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Why you do not take into account our REAL NEEDS people from Microsoft?
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Anonymous
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This is a serious regression in capability and needs to be fixed asap. I too am going to have to go back to Office 2011 as combining presentations is a basic user scenario for Powerpoint.
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Anonymous
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Absolutely! I always interchange slides for presentations. Please restore. This is a real handicap.
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Marga
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They REFUSE to introduce the changes asked by users. For example, we are asking for smoothing fonts, including a draw table icon under "inner", correcting orthographic problem in Spanish but THEY DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT OUR REAL NEEDS.
We need sensitive PWP developers to users' needs.
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BT Tower Events Team
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This is an epic failure thanks to the development team at Microsoft. Embedding any number of slides at a moments notice is crucial to anyone working in events and presentations
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Anonymous
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This is causing HUGE frustration in our events department. We frequently receive multiple files which we have to incorporate together at raid speed sometimes even in the middle of someones live presentation.
It's back to 2011 for me also if this cannot be resolved asap!
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Greig Watts
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This is a show stopper. I cannot upgrade to Office for Mac 2016 without this feature. Why go backwards with an upgrade?
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Amduat
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Update 07 January 2016 - to the developers: any possibility of at least putting this "bug" under review? I just bought a new iMac, but I cannot add Office 2016 until this missing functionality is restored. I have many colleagues who agree, for the same reason.
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Lee Douglas Dykes
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This is like the only feature I use in powerpoint. Every presentation I make is mostly a mixture of old slides.
