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I had to restore my PC to a February 2015 image after a blue screen crash. PowerPoint 2007 no longer has "Keep source formatting" options that showed up at the last slide after pasting slides from one presentation to another. There is also no "Keep source formatting" under Paste special.
I've run Windows and Office Update, everything is up to date, but still no "Keep source formatting" option. The Paste special option is showing, but the only choice is "slide" or "link". Nothing else. The Paste Special Button seems to have everything in Word and Excel 2007, but not PowerPoint. I'm using Windows 7 Professional. How do I restore this option?
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First thing to try:
Office Button > PowerPoint Options > Advanced
In the Cut Copy paste section you can select / deselect "Show Paste Options Button"
Yes, the "Show Paste Options buttons" is checked, it shows up on the ribbon, however, there is no "Keep source formatting" option. The only choices are"slide" or "link".
I don't think there was ever a "keep source format" in Paste Special dialog in 2007. In 2010 it appears in the menu (not in the pop up dialog you are showing)
I was using "keep source format" weekly making PowerPoints, copying slides from one presentation to another. As I pasted slides into a new presentation, a menu would pop up at the bottom of the last pasted slide with buttons to choose, "*keep source format? "*Use format of this presentation? or *something else (I don't remember). This menu showed each time a pasted slides from another presentation into a new one.
This feature appeared in my PowerPoint 2007 at least a year ago. Since I restored my laptop, the feature is gone. I was really happy when the feature appeared, because it was a great time saver. Without the "keep source format", pasting slides from presentations with different formats, they lose the format in a new presentation and I have to format them slide by slide.
I would not have know about this feature if I hadn't used it for at least a year in PowerPoint 2007.