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I received a notice while working in PowerPoint today - Important: Reuse Slides will be retired starting on January 1, 2026. Learn more.
We use this feature CONSTANTLY at work. This will be hugely inconvenient. Is it possible to keep this feature in the ribbon?
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For every organization that runs on Power Point, Reuse Slides is a MUST HAVE feature. There is no other way to manage 1000s of files created by hundreds of employees. Tagging features are anemic (and hard to enforce). Copilot is not sophisticated enough (yet) to fill the gap.
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Agreed this is an ESSENTIAL feature. Why are they depreciating it??!! Are they crazy?
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Completely agree. I am beside myself. But rather than just fret, I decided to start a petition asking Microsoft to not retire this feature. Please sign and share! https://c.org/c2CkjM95Mt
You'll get more traction from voting for this existing suggestion in the Microsoft feedback forum: Do Not Depreciate Reuse Slides Button from the Ribbon in PowerPoint
Thanks John. I had already done that, and will add that to the petition and ask people to do that too.
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Just saw today that they're getting rid of reuse slides - as if PPT isn't hard enough to use and create/import templates and slide masters now they do this going live in 2 days time - ludicrous! I'll join any petition going
Answer accepted by question author
About the best you can do to protest this is to vote for this user Feedback suggestion: Do Not Depreciate Reuse Slides Button from the Ribbon in PowerPoint There are other similar posts, but this one has the most votes.
AI answer
The information regarding the retirement of the Reuse Slides feature in PowerPoint is not included in the provided context. Therefore, I cannot confirm the specifics about keeping this feature in the ribbon or any alternatives that may be available. It would be best to check the official Microsoft documentation or contact Microsoft support for detailed information on this matter.
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