Reuse slides feature doesn't allow you to select specific slides (imports entire presentation)

Question

I'm trying to insert slides from another presentation and when I go to "Reuse" slides, rather than bringing up the interface for allowing me to select specific slides from another presentation, it imports the entire presentation into my slide deck.  Has this feature changed?  Is there a new way to import specific slides from another presentation?

Answer 1

The paste option 'Keep Source Formatting' worked! 

Here's what I was trying to do: insert a set of slides from one presentation (source) into another (target) while preserving the formatting of the slides from the source. The problem I was experiencing was when I chose 'New Slide/Reuse Slides...' it would insert all the source slides but use the target format, which isn't what I wanted.

So here's what I did:

• Open target presentation
• Open source presentation
• Copy first slide from source presentation
• Paste into target presentation where desired, using the 'Keep Source Formatting' option (you have to use the Paste drop-down from the ribbon bar on the Home ribbon)
• Choose 'New Slide/Reuse Slides...'
• Choose the source presentation
• All the slides will be inserted into the target and preserving the source presentation format

I agree I liked how it worked better prior to the 2016 version, but at least we can recover this functionality!

Answer 2

Not so much a new way as the old tried and true:

Open both the presentation you want to insert slides INTO and the one you want to insert slides FROM.  Put both in sorter view, then select and copy the slides you want to insert, switch to the other presentation, put the cursor where you want the new slides to appear and then paste.

Drag and Drop would work as well ... which you choose will depend on what you're doing and what you best like.

Answer 3

Sorry about splitting this answer off from its question. The forum control didn't work as I expected it to - Moderator.